Simplest way to display current month and year like Aug 2016 in PHP

Question

What is the shortest  simplest code to generate the curent month in Full English like September or in abbreviated three letter version like Feb and then add the current Year 2011   So the code will  depending on the month and year  echo things like   August 2016 or  Aug 2016 etcettera  Thanks

User · Accepted Answer

Full version     lt   echo date  F Y      gt    Short version    lt   echo date  M Y      gt    Here is a good reference for the different date options   update  To show the previous month we would have to introduce the mktime   function and make use of the optional timestamp parameter for the date   function  Like this   echo date  F Y   mktime 0  0  0  date  m  -1  1  date  Y        This will also work  it s typically used to get the last day of the previous month    echo date  F Y   mktime 0  0  0  date  m    0  date  Y        Hope that helps

User · Answer

Here is a simple and more update format of getting the data       now   new  DateTime  now        month    now- gt format  m        year    now- gt format  Y

[php] Simplest way to display current month and year like "Aug 2016" in PHP?

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