[SOLVED] simple time and date conversion help please!

[icklechurch]

Hello,

 

I'm doing something really daft with a time conversion. For example, I have the following URL:

 

www.url.com/orders.php?m=03&y=09

 

I want to then output in the php code 'March 2009' on the webpage. Similarly for url www.url.com/orders.php?m=04&y=09, I want 'April 2009' in the page, and so on.

 

At the moment I have:

 

<? echo date('F Y', mktime(0, 0, 0, 0, $_GET['m'], $_GET['y']));

?>

 

but no joy - please help!

 

 

[gevans]

<?php
//hour, minute, second, month, day, year
            echo date('F Y', mktime(0, 0, 0, , $_GET['m'], 0, $_GET['y']));
?>

[Psycho]

That code fixes the issue where the month and day were transposed, but there is still another problem. By specifying a "Day" of 0 (zero) you will get incorrect results (i.e. the previous month) since it interprets that as the last day of the previous month. Need to set the day to 1.

 

<?php
    echo date('F Y', mktime(0, 0, 0, $_GET['m'], 1, $_GET['y']));
?>

 

However, after realizing that problem I found that you could also use negative numbers for the day. So, -1 would the the second to last day of the previous month. That's an interesting feature. Not sure how it may be used, but using zero to specifiy the last day of the month will certainly come in handy.

[icklechurch]

Bloody brilliant - thank you very much! 

[gevans]

That code fixes the issue where the month and day were transposed, but there is still another problem. By specifying a "Day" of 0 (zero) you will get incorrect results (i.e. the previous month) since it interprets that as the last day of the previous month. Need to set the day to 1.

 

<?php
    echo date('F Y', mktime(0, 0, 0, $_GET['m'], 1, $_GET['y']));
?>

 

However, after realizing that problem I found that you could also use negative numbers for the day. So, -1 would the the second to last day of the previous month. That's an interesting feature. Not sure how it may be used, but using zero to specifiy the last day of the month will certainly come in handy.

 

I jsut noticed that as well after checking out the manual following the discovery of my mistake