DateTime format full month not as documented

Question

Trying to output the full month name using DateTime object but somehow I'm not interpet documentation show here .

I want the date out put a date like 18 November 2012 but Im not sucseeding

$date = new DateTime();
$datum =  $date->format("d m Y");

outputs 18 11 2012 ??

reading on this format dd ([ \t.-])* m ([ \t.-])* y should output correct but this does not work at all ??

Answer 1

For the formatting characters, see the date() manual page. This is referred to several times on the DateTime::format() manual page.

For the full month name you want to use the formatting character F.

A full textual representation of a month, such as January or March

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The "Date Formats" manual page that you linked to is for the input date string, not the output format.