Convert month number to month short name

Question

I have a variable with the following value

$month = 201002; 

the first 4 numbers represent the year, and the last 2 numbers represent the m

Answer 1

You can use the DateTime Class to get a Date data structure using date string and format. Then get a date string with any format like this:

$month = 201002; 
$date = DateTime::createFromFormat('Yd', $month);  
$monthName = $date->format('M'); // will get Month name