Monthly Nav

mramonster

I need to create a nav table and currently I have the following code that produces:

News

2009
February
January

2008
December
November
October
September
August
July
June
May
April
March
February
January

2007
December
November
October
September
August
July
June
May
April
March
February
January

2006
December
November

<?php
echo '<h2>News</h2>';

$first_yr = '2006';
$first_mo = 'November';
$first_ts = strtotime($first_mo . $first_yr);
$ts = strtotime(date('F') . date('Y'));
$tmp_yr = '0';
while ($first_ts <= $ts) {
    $yr = date('Y', $ts);
    $mo = date('F', $ts);
    if ($yr != $tmp_yr) {
        echo '<br /><h2>' . $yr . '</h2>';
        $tmp_yr = $yr;
    }
    echo '<a href="/news/' . $yr . '/month-' . $mo . '.html" title="' . $mo . ' ' . $yr . ' News">' . $mo . '</a><br />';
    $ts = strtotime('-1 month', $ts);
} 
?>

I need it to look like this:

News

<table>
  <tr>
  <td>
2009
January
February
</td>
<td>
2008
January
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December
</td>
<td>
2007
January
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
2006
November
December
</td>
</tr>
</table>

Basically a 3 column table that reads from Left to Right and Lists the Dates in order Starting at January on the top.

Krik

You set it up to loop backwards through the months and years. Make them two separate loops. One loop will go backwards through the years and the other loop (inside the first) will go forward through the months.

This will then easily allow you to put a <td> and a </td> at the beginning and end of each year loop.

mramonster

So far I've got:

<?php
$ts_mo = date('F');
$ts_yr = date('Y');
$yr = '2006';
$mo = 'January';

while ($ts_yr >= $yr) { 
	echo '<h2>'.$ts_yr.'</h2>';

while ($mo >= $ts_mo){
	echo $mo.'<br />';
	$mo = date( "F", strtotime( "$mo +1 month" ) );
}

$ts_yr = $ts_yr - 1;
$mo = 'January';
$ts_mo = 'December';
}
?>

and it pumps out:

<h2>2009</h2>
January<br />
February<br />
March<br />

<h2>2008</h2>
January<br />
February<br />
March<br />

<h2>2007</h2>
January<br />
February<br />
March<br />

<h2>2006</h2>
January<br />
February<br />
March<br />

Krik

<?php
$ts_yr = date('Y');
$yr = '2006';

while ($ts_yr >= $yr) {
    echo '<td>';
    echo '<h2>'.$ts_yr.'</h2>';
    $mo = 1;

while ($mo <= 12){

    $getmonth = mktime('0','0','0',$mo,'1',$ts_yr);
    echo date('F', $getmonth).'<br />';

    if (($ts_yr == date('Y')) && ($mo == date('n')))
    {
    $mo = 13;
    }
    else
	{
    $mo++;
    }
}

echo '</td>';
$ts_yr--;
}
?>