Posted by Toby A Inkster on 08/02/07 08:44

Yarco wrote:

> But cause $MONTH_NAMES is variable, someone could change the value.

If you overload the class' __set() function you can effectively make it
read-only. (Assuming you're using PHP 5.)

Better though:

function get_month_name ($n, $fmt='M')
{
$d = mktime(12, 0, 0, $n, 1, 1970);
return date($fmt, $d);
}

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PHP Encryption Class
http://tobyinkster.co.uk/blog/2007/08/01/php-encryption-class/

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