Getting month number from month string

Hi all,

I am trying to figure out a way to get month number from a month string. For example:

'June' => 6
'August' => 8
'December' => 12

Anyone knows a simple way to do this?
Thx,
nenad

build up an array

$months = array(1 => "Jan","Feb","Mar",....);

then you can just do

print $months[$mymonth];

if $mymonth was '3', it would return 'Mar'

hth