Help for getting previous months for archives.

[Davidwilson]

Need help in creating a list of previous months for my archives section.
For example, if the current month is July 2008, list (array) of previous three months should contain June 2008, May 2008, April 2008.

[bradgrafelman]

You could define an array of months, use [man]date/man to get the current month, and then loop backwards (going to the end of the array if you reach the beginning). Something like:

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

for($i = 0, $curr = date('m')-1, $year = date('Y'); $i < 3; $i++, $curr--) {
    if($curr == 0) {
        $year--;
        $curr = 12;
    }

echo $months[$curr] . " $year<br>\n";
}

[m_tt]

You can do it easily with mktime...

for( $month = 1; $month <= 3; $month++ )
{
	echo date( "F Y", mktime( 0, 0, 0, date("m")-$month, date("d"), date("Y") ) );
}

[bradgrafelman]

Nice... didn't even consider negative months with mktime()... guess I never realized that would work.