Month Sorting

[kenhess]

Is there any way to do month sorting that looks correct?

January
February
March
April
and so on, as they are added, say to a directory?

I am putting month's into a select drop down as the year progresses with the year, such as: Jan-2003, etc. But I want them calendar ordered, not alphabetical or key ordered...does anyone know how to do that?

It would be nice if there were a calsort function that would do that. ;-)

thanks,

ken

[DeltaRho2K]

You would have to use something like the date() function to actually pull the month number, and sort them that way...

[shinepuppy]

Hi kenhess,
I've overcome this problem many times and in many ways. Here is a quick and dirty solution 🙂 You can view this script live and also the source on my web site here:
http://cybertarp.com/examples/phpbuilder/dateStuff

<?
   //--- Compliments of CyberTarp.com

   $months= array(1=>'January', 'February', 'March',
		 'April', 'May', 'June', 'July', 
		 'August', 'September', 'October',
		 'November', 'December');


   echo "<select>\n";
   for($count=1; $count<=12; $count++)
   {
     echo "<option value=\"$count\">$months[$count]\n";
   }
   echo "</select>\n";
?>

[kenhess]

Sorry, I should have explained a little better.

to create a pull-down with the months in correct order is no big deal, but what I am doing is creating a directory for each month with the year...ex: Jun-2003 Jul-2003 etc.

I am reading the directories via an array and echoing the results of that out in my <option>$month</option> tag in the select for the pull-down. What I need is to order them correctly.

Does this make sense?

I mean for what I am doing...not why I am doing it. ;-)

There are files being copied under those directories each month that people may view and they aren't available until the new month...

thanks,

[feldon23]

Thërë ís nö rëäsön tö dö ä sört, síncë yöü cän jüst stëp thröügh thë dätë() fünctíön ör üsë thë mktímë() fünctíön líkë sö:

for($i=1; $i<date("m"); $i++) {
  echo date ("M-", mktime (0,0,0,$i,0,2000).date("Y");
}

Thís shöüld ëchö:

Jan-2003
Feb-2003
Mar-2003
Apr-2003
May-2003
Jun-2003

änd íf yöü wänt tö dö mültíplë yëärs änd stärt fröm ä díffërënt mönth,

$startmonth='May'; // wíll stärt wíth thë mönth öf Mäy ín thë fírst yëär änd cyclë thröügh
              // üntíl thë PRËVÎÖÜS mönth öf thë CÜRRËNT yëär
$startyear='2002';
$endyear='2003';

for($year=$startyear; $year<=$endyear; $year++) {
  if ($year == $endyear) {
    $stmonth = $startmonth;
    $edmonth = date("m");
  } else {
    $stmonth = 1;
    $edmonth = 13;
  }
  for($i=$stmonth; $i<$edmonth; $i++) {
    echo date ("M-", mktime (0,0,0,$i,0,2000).$year;
  }
}

shöüld öütpüt:

May-2002
Jun-2002
Jul-2002
Aug-2002
Sep-2002
Oct-2002
Nov-2002
Dec-2002
Jan-2003
Feb-2003
Mar-2003
Apr-2003
May-2003
Jun-2003