get date of post and display by monthly

[jarvis]

Hi,

 

I'm using Wordpress but think the priniciple is the same. I wish to get the date of a post for example:

<?php the_time(d M Y') ?>

Once I have the date I then need to list the posts bi-monthly:

Aug - Sept 11

- all posts with a aug - sept date

June - July 11

- all posts with a june - july date

Apr - May 11

Feb - Mar 11

Dec - Jan 11

- all posts with a dec 10 or jan 11 date

Oct - Nov 10

etc

 

Am at a total loss on how to do this? Is anyone able to point me in the right direction?

 

I thought I could get the month and year a post, then use a switch/case statement, problem is, I can't see how I would do the year part and equally the fact that it's dec 10 and jan 11

 

:-(

 

Any help is very much appreciated.

 

Thanks

[jarvis]

Sorry,

Just wondering if this is on the right lines:

<?php
$month = the_time('M');
$year = the_time('Y');

switch (true) {

case ($month == 'Aug' && $year == '2011') : 
	$heading = "Aug - Sept 11";
	break;
case ($month == 'Sept' && $year == '2011') : 
	$heading = "Aug - Sept 11";
	break;		

}
?>

If so, is there a way it can be auto generated? Otherwise I'd need to add a case for all months for the past X years and also cater for all future years?

 

Or is this miles off?

[@]

im assuming your posts are stored in a database? if each post has a date that it was posted then you could sort them in from the database. If you post the table structure i'll have a better idea