Order by Month, Not Alpha

[iagal]

When a user selects January = 1, February = 2, etc:

<Option selected=1>January</option>
<Option value=2>February</option>
<Option value=3>March</option>
<Option value=4>April</option>
<Option value=5>May</option>
<Option value=6>June</option>
<Option value=7>July</option>
<Option value=8>August</option>
<Option value=9>September</option>
<Option value=10>October</option>
<Option value=11>November</option>
<Option value=12>December</option>
</select>

Now, when I:
$query = $query . ' order by year, month';

It works fine, putting the months in order by number. However, I would rather it print January instead of 1. Is there an easy way to do this? Thank you so much from an utter newbie.

[stolzyboy]

hope this helps

$months = Array();
$months[0] = "";
$months[1] = "January";
$months[2] = "February";
$months[3] = "March";
and so on...

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

theMonth(2); // This would return February, since '2' = February and so on...