how to add date to webpage with php

I want to add the current month to a webpage in letter format with php.

So the webpage would look like "the month is june"

The way I would normaly tackle this is to pick the date from a file that has the 12 months in it and use an IF statement.

Is there a quick way to do it using the php engines built in time and date ?

 

<?
echo date("F");
?>

http://www.php.net/date

 

Thanks Alx...