[SOLVED] PHP get the current month of a date

PHP get the current month of a date

Hello everybody I would like to get the current month of a date.

This is what I tried:

<?php 

   $transdate = date('m-d-Y', time());

   echo $transdate;

   $month = date('m', strtotime($transdate));

   if ($month == "12") {
       echo "<br />December is the month :)";
   } else {
       echo "<br /> The month is probably not December";
   }

?>

But the result is wrong, it should display December is the month :0

Any ideas? thanks.

Solution

You need to use the default date() function of PHP to get current month. Then you can easily check it by if conditions as mentioned in the code below:

<?php 
$month = date('n'); // 'n' represents a numeric representation of a month, without leading zeros (1 to 12)

if($month == 12){
   echo "<br />December is the month :)";
} else {
   echo "<br /> The month is probably not December";
}
?>