Simple Date Question

[neobolt]

I've been messing with this for a while now.
I know I'm missing something simple.

A user select a link which provides a 2 digit month code in the url.
Example: website.com?month=04

My Code:
 

$selection_month = $_GET["month"];
$month = date('F', strtotime($selection_month));

echo "Tasks Due for the month of $month";

Month always shows up as December. Should show as April for this example.
What am I missing?

Thanks
John

[Barand]

strtotime needs a datetime string

 

try mktime(0,0,0,$selection_month,1) instead

[neobolt]

Thanks Barand,

This gave me a really long digit as a number.
I went with an if, elseif statement as a fix instead.

if ($selection_month == '01') {
$month = 'January'; }
elseif ($selection_month == '02') {
$month = 'February'; }
elseif ($selection_month == '03') {
$month = 'March'; }
elseif ($selection_month == '04') {
$month = 'April'; }
elseif ($selection_month == '05') {
$month = 'May'; }
elseif ($selection_month == '06') {
$month = 'June'; }
elseif ($selection_month == '07') {
$month = 'July'; }
elseif ($selection_month == '08') {
$month = 'August'; }
elseif ($selection_month == '09') {
$month = 'September'; }
elseif ($selection_month == '10') {
$month = 'October'; }
elseif ($selection_month == '11') {
$month = 'November'; }
elseif ($selection_month == '12') {
$month = 'December'; }

[Barand]

$selected_month = '04';
echo date('F', mktime(0,0,0,$selected_month,1)); // -->  April

[Jessica]

Thanks Barand,

 

This gave me a really long digit as a number.

What was your code? Because that's what strtotime does. You have to still use the date() function you were using.

[neobolt]

 

$selected_month = '04';
echo date('F', mktime(0,0,0,$selected_month,1)); // -->  April

My url= http://sanitationhq.com/due-month.php?month=04

$selection_month = $_GET["month"];

$month = date('F', mktime(0,0,0,$selected_month,1));

echo "$month"; // Display December????? Not sure why. Try the url if you want to see.

[Barand]

I used selected_month, you are using selection_month

 

$selection_month = $_GET["month"];
$month = date('F', mktime(0,0,0,$selected_month,1));

[neobolt]

AHHHH,

Thanks, something so small and simple.
Much appreciated, everything works perfectly now.

Edited May 1, 2013 by neobolt