convert srting to date format and get specific date only in laravel

  $realdate=$event->eventdate;
        $myDateTime = DateTime::createFromFormat('Y-m-d', $realdate);
        dd(date_format($myDateTime,'j')); // get date i.e 05,05
dd(date_format($myDateTime,'M')); //get month


Reference:  http://php.net/manual/en/function.date.php