date and previous month

[Brusca]

Hi Guys,
I was hoping to be able to determine the current month and then output the previous month.

//returns current month as a single number, in this case 6 (june)

echo date('n');

If I reduce that by 1;

//the number is now 5 and I would like to output the month in full (may)

$newdate = date('n')-1;

How do I now out put the month in Full using 5??

Sorry if this is a completely silly question.

[bpat1434]

You know the answer to your own question. You know that the line "echo date('n')" prints out "6" for June. Well, use a the mktime() and date() functions to print it out.

<?php

echo date("F", mktime(0,0,0,date('n')-1,date('j'),date('Y'));

?>

[man]mktime/man
[man]date/man

~Brett

[Brusca]

Thanks heaps, I knew what I needed but did not know how to code it.

Cheers

[Weedpacket]

Or (and this will probably involve less processing)

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

echo $months[5];

[Installer]

Or (maybe the easiest):

$last_month = date('F', strtotime('-1 month'));