How to format PHP date to represent month with the first 3 letters?

Question

I have a PHP code that will display the date format which is

{{date('F d, Y', strtotime($po->due_date))}}

and it will output something like "September 02, 2016", how can I format this date into "Sep 02, 2016"?

Did you try and google it? Perhaps googling the function you are using? I know for a fact that you would find the answer in php's own docs. — Epodax, May 30 '16 at 08:19
Search http://docs.php.net/manual/en/function.date.php for "A short textual representation of a month, three letters" — VolkerK, May 30 '16 at 08:19

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered May 30 '16 at 08:19

It's M d, Y. I would recommend you to add due_date to $dates property in your model:

/**
 * The attributes that should be mutated to dates.
 *
 * @var array
 */
protected $dates = [
    'due_date',
];

Then you can display it $po->due_date->format('M d, Y') instead of date('M d, Y', strtotime($po->due_date))

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