[SOLVED] strtotime skipping months

[arsnova]

I'm trying to create a consecutive listing of months, but the output skips months in a regular pattern: 2, 0, 1, 2, 0. Instead of

 

2009-10

2009-11

2009-12

2010-01

[...]

 

The result is

 

2009-10

2009-12

2009-12

2009-01

2009-03

2009-03

2009-05

[...]

 

My code:

 

<?php
$now = '2009-10';
for($count = 0; $count <= 12; $count++){
$new_date = strtotime($now . "+$count month");
echo date('Y-m', $new_date).'<br />';
}
?>

 

I'm stumped and really could use some help telling me what I'm doing wrong. Thank you!

[PFMaBiSmAd]

That's because $now is not a complete date and strtotime() uses the current date for the part you did not provide and since not every month has 31 days (todays day number) it is going to the next month.

 

Set $now to a day that exists in every month -

 

$now = '2009-10-01';

[arsnova]

Thank you very much! As you already know, that did the trick.

 

Probably not the most graceful, but in case it's useful to anyone else, here's my adjusted code:

 

<?php
$now = date("Y-m-01");
for($count = 0; $count <= 12; $count++){
   $new_date = strtotime(date("Y-m-d", strtotime($now)) . "+$count month");
   echo date("m", $new_date).'<br />';
}
?>