Online PHP editor | refs for W15a6

@ 2015-07-01T07:04:17Z

<?php
$str = 'December 2012 Name: Jack Brown';
$ptr = "/^(?P<month>:Jan(?:uary)?|Feb(?:ruary)?|Dec(?:ember)?) (?P<year>:19[7-9]\d|2\d{3})/";
preg_match($ptr, $str, $data);

echo $data['month'].' '.$data['year'];