[RESOLVED] Use current month to get previous months

[condoug]

Hi all

I am building a blog and part of the it requires a list of months to be displayed as part of the archive section, example below:

November 2009
December 2009
January 2010

So, as we are now in February 2010, I need to display the months as above and they would be hyperlinks.

I have noticed I can use

date("F");
date("Y");

which gives me the names of the months, but how do I get them to display using the current month minus X number of months automatically?

I hope that makes sense.

Regards
Doug

[halojoy]

You can create an array with months names.
Then use
date ('n') ... to get current month number

$mon[1] = 'Jan'
$mon[2] = 'Feb'

<?php

$mon = array(NULL, 'Jan', 'Feb', 'Mar', 'Apr', 'May', 'Jun',
				'Jul', 'Aug', 'Sep', 'Oct', 'Nov', 'Dec');

$current = date('n');

echo 'current= ' . $mon[$current];
echo '<br />';
echo 'prev= ' . $mon[$current-1];

[condoug]

Thanks halojoy.