Need to insert dynamic dates in url filenames

[eggleston]

Hello:

 

How could I use php to automatically insert the correct 3 letter month abbreviations and four digit year in the following pdf filenames on the first of each month?

 

(For example "...Feb2015.pdf" then "...Mar2015.pdf" and so on....

 

<div>Book One: <a href="http://monthlybookfiles.mysite.com/BookOne_Jan2015.pdf">Download Here</a></div>
<div>Book Two: <a href="http://monthlybookfiles.mysite.com/BookTwo_Jan2015.pdf">Download Here</a></div>
<div>Book Three: <a href="http://monthlybookfiles.mysite.com/BookThree_Jan2015.pdf">Download Here</a> </div>
<div>Book Four: <a href="http://monthlybookfiles.mysite.com/BookFour_Jan2015.pdf">Download Here</a> </div>

 

 

Please advise,

 

 

Eggie

 

 

 

[NotionCommotion]

Don't they already have them in your div list?  Or are you trying to create this list?  What are you starting with?  Some array which contains what?

[eggleston]

Hello:

 

What I am asking is how to automatically create filenames based on the month/year so that the filename will be a clickable link each month that will point to a real file on a server.

 

So knowing that the filename will always be month/year based, I need php to grab the abbreviated month and four digit year (both dynamic) on the first of each month and then add them to the url/filename (constant) so that we can avoid having to retype/edit the filename via ftp each month.

 

Again, in the example: "MyFilename_Jan2015.pdf" or "MyFilename_Mar2015"

 

Thanks for your help.

 

 

Eggie

[CroNiX]

Are you talking about when the files are uploaded to the server you want to name them with those date values?

$date = date('MY'); //outputs 3 letter abbreviation followed by a 4 digit year, for the CURRENT MONTH/YEAR.

$filename = 'MyFilename_' . $date . '.pdf';

//$filename is now "MyFilename_Jan2015.pdf"

[CroNiX]

If all of these pdf's are being uploaded into a single directory, you can just use PHP's glob() function to retrieve all filenames from that dir.

 

Let's say you had a dir, like 

/home/user/pdfs

 

And in that dir you had:

MyFilename_Jan2015.pdf

MyFilename_Feb2015.pdf

MyFilename_Mar2015.pdf

 

And you wanted to list them all as links:

foreach(glob('/home/user/pdfs/*.pdf') as $filename)) //grab all ".pdf" filenames from this dir
{
  echo '<a href="/path/to/pdf/' . $filename . '">$filename</a><br>';
}

[scootstah]

If all of these pdf's are being uploaded into a single directory, you can just use PHP's glob() function to retrieve all filenames from that dir.

This is a good approach. It ensures that you will not have links that go nowhere if you skip a month, and prevents you from having to do file checks on every date.