[Resolved] convert month from "some number" to "month name"

[vaska]

i have a date coming from a script (of which i don't have control over) and i have to convert a value passed via a url into a date...

url.php?day=12&month=2&year=2004

i thought this worked, as i was only testing with this month, but it only works with current time information...

$newmonth = strtotime($month);
$newm=date('F', $newmonth);

so, i'm not sure how to make this conversion...or should i just write something wonky like...

if ($month == '1') echo "January", etc.

but that can't be it...???

help...v

[AstroTeg]

You'd want to check out [man]mktime[/man] instead of strtotime().

For something like this, I find its a lot easier just to define an array of months (there's only 12 of them) and then whatever the user supplied, use that as your array index. Example:

$monthname = $aMonths[$month-1];

Where $month = the user supplied month number and $aMonths is an array containing the 12 months. Because the array is zero based, you just need to subtract 1 from the user supplied value.

[vaska]

aha, mktime...

don't know why i didn't go that route in the first place...

this did the trick...

$temp=mktime('0','0','0',$month);
$newmonth=date('F', $temp);

🙂