php - get only the M month from a date in php

Question

i have this french date format :

(Samedi, Aout 31, 2013)

and i want to get only the (M) of the date, for example for August i only want the (Aug)

PS : August in english = Aout in french

Answer 1

<?php
  $date = 'Samedi, Aout 31, 2013';
  $time = strtotime($date);
  $month_only = date('M', $time);
  echo $month_only;

Answer 2

$stamp = strtotime("Samedi, Aout 31, 2013");
$month = strftime("%b", $stamp);

...或更简洁地说：

echo strftime("%b", strtotime("Samedi, Aout 31, 2013"));

Answer 3

尝试：explode(" ","Samedi, Aout 31, 2013")[1]