help with date function

[scialom]

Hi

I have a var like this $this_month = 3;

How can I convert it that it will print "March"?

thanks,
Assaf

[KemuriSka]

There is actually a function that will return the month in that format.

Here it is:

$month = date("F");

Go here for more info.

Ste

[scialom]

But this will return the current month, and I need a different one.

Assaf

[stolzyboy]

use a bunch of if statements or switch's

<?
$this_month = 3;
if ($this_month == 1)
{
$this_month = "January";
}
else if ($this_month == 2)
{
$this_month = "February";
}
else if ($this_month == 3)
{
$this_month = "March";
}
//and so on.....
else
{
}
?>

this can easily be made a switch statement also

[KemuriSka]

Or you could use an array with a function:

$months = Array();
$months[0] = "January";
$months[1] = "February";
$months[2] = "March";
etc..

function theMonth($i) {
  $month = months[$i];
  echo $month;
}

theMonth(2); // This would return 'March', as '0' = 'January', '1' = 'February', '2' = 'March', etc...

Ste