title: Convert month name to string number using Carbon?
body: <p>When i use this code, when language is English for example for December i get <code>$date_number = 12</code>, but when i use German i get for Dezember 
  <code>$date_number= 01</code>. Thats way i think that i need to use Carbon to convert month name to string number of month, so that i can use localization. Any suggestion how can i fix that?</p>
  
  <pre><code>$date_number = strval(date('m', strtotime($month)));
  
    $articles = Articles::whereRaw('MONTH(created_at) ='.$date_number)-&gt;where('approved',1)-&gt;get();
  </code></pre>