Is PHP supposed to show this? 'J0000005America/New_York'

[DanielWhite]

I was trying to get the last month with this code:

echo date('June', strtotime('-1 month'));

 

I know your supposed to use 'F' but I need some way of having the full month name to work with it. Anyone know?

 

Anyway the result of that echo brings up this:

 

J0000005America/New_York

 

What does this mean?

[samshel]

using 'F' will give you a full month name.

 

echo date('F', strtotime('-1 month'));

 

Something else needs to be done?

[ikmyer]

<?php
echo date('June', strtotime('-1 month'));
?>

 

was evaluating each letter of June so like...

J =

u = Milliseconds (added in PHP 5.2.2)  Example: 54321

n = Numeric representation of a month, without leading zeros  1 through 12

e =Timezone identifier (added in PHP 5.1.0)  Examples: UTC, GMT, Atlantic/Azores

[jonsjava]

here's something that will show you the previous month:

<?php
$lastmonth = date("n") - 1;
function getmonth($month) {
return (($month==0 ) ? date("F") : date("F", mktime(0,0,0,$month)));
}
print getmonth($lastmonth);
?> 

[kenrbnsn]

Why go through all that when the strtotime function works just fine:

<?php
$lastmonth = date('F', strtotime('-1 month'));
echo $lastmonth;
?>

 

Ken

[jonsjava]

because I just woke up, and didn't stop to think simple *sigh*.