Bizarre "for loop" behavior

[cadams7407]

hello world ... haha

 

anyways. I have a for loop that I use to generate a list of months. Its worked very well .. until today (2007-01-31)

 

heres code:

echo "<TABLE BORDER=0 CELLPADDING=3 style=\"BORDER-COLLAPSE: collapse\"><tr><td align=right bgcolor='#F4ECA5'><B>";
//This generates the months Jan - Dec and lists them down the left of the table
for($m = 01;$m <= 12; $m++){
$month = date("F", mktime(0, 0, 0, $m));
echo "<option value='$m'>".$month."<br /></option>";
}
echo "</B></td><td>";

 

Normally I get a nice list like:

January

February

March

etc.

 

But today the list is:

January

March

March

May

May

July

July

August

October

October

December

December

???

 

Wether or not this changes tomorrow (2007-02-01) will give me a clear indication if this is a php bug, or if my code is too sloppy.

 

In the mean time, any advice out there?

 

Thank you in advance.

 

Almost forgot: php 4.3.11 | MySQL 4.1.11 | phpMyAdmin 2.6.4 | Apache 2.0.58 | Zend Opt. 2.6.2

[Jessica]

That is pretty funky...Uhm, can you try changing the 01 to just 1?

 

Whenever I need to do this, I just use a simple array

$months[1] = 'January'; etc, and just do foreach on it. It sounds faster than making timestamps and using date. Perhaps try that?

[effigy]

Per the manual for mktime:

 

Arguments may be left out in order from right to left; any arguments thus omitted will be set to the current value according to the local date and time.

 

You did not give mktime a day or year, so it is using 31 / 2007. There is no February 31st, April 31st, June 31st, September 31st, or Novermber 31st this year, so they are spilling over into the next month.

 

Use a day that every month has: mktime(0, 0, 0, $m, 1)

[cadams7407]

Per the manual for mktime:

 

Arguments may be left out in order from right to left; any arguments thus omitted will be set to the current value according to the local date and time.

 

You did not give mktime a day or year, so it is using 31 / 2007. There is no February 31st, April 31st, June 31st, September 31st, or Novermber 31st this year, so they are spilling over into the next month.

 

Use a day that every month has: mktime(0, 0, 0, $m, 1)

 

right on, makes sense.

 

its working fine today .. but todays the 1st .. so ... yeah, what you said.

 

Thanks!