convert month from name to number

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Is there an easy way to change $month = "July"; so that $nmonth = 7 (07 would be fine too). I could do a case statement, but surely there is already a function to convert? EDIT: I wish I could accept multiple answers, cause two of you basically gave me what I needed by your powers combined.

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

That will give the numerical value for $month. Thanks!

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An interesting look here, the code given by kelly works well, 

$nmonth = date("m", strtotime($month));

but for the month of february, it won't work as expected when the current day is 30 or 31 on leap year and 29,30,31 on non-leap year.It will return 3 as month number. Ex: 

$nmonth = date("m", strtotime("february"));

The solution is, add the year with the month like this: 

$nmonth = date("m", strtotime("february-2012"));

I got this from this comment in php manual.

user_5814040 
$monthname = date("F", strtotime($month));

F means full month name

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If you want number of month from string name then

$month = 'August';
$year = 2019;
echo date('m',strtotime($month.' '.$year));

Gives 08

Or If you want the Full name of the month then

echo date('F')

OR if you want the half name of the month then

echo date('M')
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$date = 'Dec 25 2099';
echo date('d/m/Y', strtotime($date));

This returns 01/01/1970, that means php doesn't support all dates, it returns correct formatted date till Jan 19 2038 but Jan 20 2038 returns 01/01/1970

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