Converting Text Date to Integer

[Anon]

I have a month text value stored in $gomonth

I am trying to convert this value to an integer to use within a query.

$gomonth2 = date(m, $gomonth);

Regardless of the value that is in $gomonth it is constantly returning 12.

Any clues as to what I am doing wrong....

Seems pretty simple like I am missing something...

Thanks!!

[[deleted]]

That might have something to do with the fact that date takes a timestamp as a parameter, and not a string.

You could try adding all the month names into an array at the appropriate indexes (january at one, february at two, etc) and use array_search() to find it. array-search() would then return the key of the element where the name was found, 1 for january, 2 for february etc...

Ofcourse the best solution would be not to store the month as a string at all.

[Anon]

Thanks! I was actually going to go that route...

if $gomonth=='january'

$gomonth = 1

etc.

I was hoping I could find a workaround...

I'm using text so it provides a user friendly appearance to users...

Thanks for the input!