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mistafeesh

I want to set a variable based on the rightmost digit of a number. Is there a PHP command to do this? it's for displaying a date nicely - it'll say 1st or 2nd or 3rd, etc...

YappyDog

Sounds like you are trying to reinvent the "S" format option of the date() function.

http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.date.php

mistafeesh

well, sort of. But I think I need to. I'm building some pages that query a database made for an open source calendar app. When I try to convert the dates into "proper" dates, they go all random on me, so I've decided to work with what I've got for now!

Does anyone know if that function exists? I know it does in other languages, all though I can't think where I read about it now? Applescript or something like that!!

LordShryku

What are you doing to convert the dates?

mistafeesh

I've deleted the code now, but I was trying to use mktime. When I went to the page, the dates just came out as completely random.

here's the code I've got in there at the mo. A combination of Dreamweaver generated and me generated:

<?php 
  #month code
  $monthname = array( 1 => "January", 2 => "February", 3 => "March", 4 =>
 "April", 5 => "May", 6 => "June", 7 => "July", 8 => "August", 9 => 
"September", 10 => "October", 11 => "November", 12 => "December");
echo $monthname[$row_event['month']]

  ?>
  &nbsp;<?php echo $row_event['day']; ?>,&nbsp;&nbsp;<?php echo $row_event['year']; ?>

I know it's a bit of a long way round, but at least I know it works! But as I'm still a bit of a novice, I'll appreciate any suggestions...