getdate

Description

Returns an associative array containing the date information of the timestamp, or the current local time if no timestamp is given, as the following array elements:

• "seconds" - seconds

• "minutes" - minutes

• "hours" - hours

• "mday" - day of the month

• "wday" - day of the week, numeric

• "mon" - month, numeric

• "year" - year, numeric

• "yday" - day of the year, numeric; i.e. "299"

• "weekday" - day of the week, textual, full; i.e. "Friday"

• "month" - month, textual, full; i.e. "January"

$today = getdate(); 
$month = $today[month]; 
$mday = $today[mday]; 
$year = $today[year]; 
echo "$month $mday, $year";