Converting Dates

[jaZon]

Say I have a user input May into a form. I want to convert that to read 05. I believe I have done this in the past, but I haven't the slightest idea how it was done.

Anyone?

[phpsharma]

Hi,

<select name=month>
<option value=1>january</option>
<option value=2>febraury</option>
<option value=3>march</option>

</select>

please let me know any deviations..

sharma

[lilleman]

If you already have the value, then you can do like this:

<?php

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

// your variable
$yourVar = 'May';

// get '05' into a variable
$num = ( $months[$yourVar] < 10 ) ? ( '0' . $months[$yourVar] ) : $months[$yourVar];

?>

I hope this was what you wanted, otherwise, let me know.

[gunhoe86]

this could also work:

<select name="month">
  <option value="1">january</option>
  <option value="2">february</option>
etc. etc. etc.
  </select>

<?php

switch($month)
{
case "1":
$month = "01";
break;

case "2":
$month = "02";
break;

case "3":
$month = "03";
break;

//etc. etc. etc.
}

?>

note this hasn't been tested, but i've used the same code b4.

~JOSH

[vincery]

<select name='month'>
<option value='January'>January</option>
<option value='February'>February</option>
etc. etc. etc.
</select>

Now the php code goes:
<?php
echo date("m",strtotime("$month 1"));
?>

[Shrike]

Why change the HTML? Just use mktime() to generate your timestamp.