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Posted by Benjamin Esham on 09/01/06 21:44
comp.lang.php wrote:
> Could someone please explain this one? This one got me:
>
> for ($thisMonth = (int)$minMonth; $thisMonth <= 12; $thisMonth++) {
> $monthName = date('M', strtotime($thisMonth));
> print_r("thisMonth = $thisMonth and monthName = $monthName<P>");
> }
OK... first, why do you say (int)$minMonth? Is casting really necessary?
Somehow I doubt it.
Your problem is that you are passing $thisMonth to strtotime(). That
function expects the description of *a complete date*, not just one date
element such as a month. You are passing, e.g. "4" to strtotime(), and it
has absolutely no idea what that 4 is supposed to refer to.
There are two potential solutions that I can think of:
Create a dummy date to pass to strtotime. For example,
strtotime("$thisMonth/14/06")
returns a date of the fourteenth day of whichever month you're using. Since
you're only worried about the value of the month, the day and year don't
matter; they just need to be present (and valid) in the call to strtotime().
The second, and IMO better, solution is to stop abusing strtotime() and just
write your own function:
function get_month_name($monthNumber) {
$months = array(
1 => 'January',
2 => 'February',
...
12 => 'December'
);
return $months[$monthnumber];
}
Then you can just use
$monthName = get_month_name($thisMonth);
HTH,
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