month array link gen.

[Anon]

i am trying to have a piece of code generate the current month so a html link will point to the proper month, the url needs to point to a address such as:
http://www.mysite.com/month/jan/jan.php
in the event that the current month was january...and repeat accordingly for the other months...i am thinking i can do this by means of an array, then using thismonth to call the month...though i am unsure how to actually call it and set it up into a <a href='*******">link</a> format...

any help greatly appreciated.

justinB

<?
monthsArray=array(1=>"jan","feb","mar","apr","may","jun","jul","aug","sep","oct","nov","dec");

function goToCurrentMonth($thismonth) {
for ($i=1,$i>12,$i++) {
if ($thismonth==$monthsArray[$i]) {
$baselink='<a href="http://www.mysite.com/month/';
$currentLink=$baseLink . $monthsArray[$i] . '/' . $monthsArray[$i] . '.php">' . $monthsOutput[$i] . '</a>';
echo $currentLink;
}
}
}
?>

[sarahk]

check out what I've done at http://www.propertyinvestor.co.nz/rpimag/issues.php

The code below is hacked from a class I wrote and I use phplib template so it's hard to cut and paste meaningful code. But I need to dynamically display the issue list (I did this by hand for a year - got tiresome). To complicate things a month doesn't start on the 1st so I had to handle that.

You're on the right track.

var $abbrMonth = array( "dec", "feb","mar","apr","may","jun","jul","aug","sep","oct","nov","dec", "feb");
var $fullMonth = array( "December", "February","March","April","May","June","July","August","September","October","November","December","February");

function setCurrentIssue()
{
  $days = date("d");
  $month = date("n");
   $year = date("y");
	  // force the month to be an integer, feb is 0, mar is 1, have to subtract 2 to get right month
  if ($days < "05") 
	  { $month = $month - 2;} 
	else {$month = $month -1;}

   if ($month < 1) 
	  {$month = 11; $year = $this->givePrevYr($year);}
   $fullMonth = $this->giveMonth($month);
  $this->currentIssue = $fullMonth . $year ; //. $this->typeFile
}

function giveMonth($mthNo)
{
   $output = $this->abbrMonth[$mthNo];
   return $output;
} // function giveMonth

function giveFullMth($chkMth)
{
for ($i = 1; $i<12; $i++)
{
if ($chkMth == $this->abbrMonth[$i])
{
$output = $this->fullMonth[$i];
break;
}
}
return $output;
} // function giveFullMth