Combining _POST and _GET statements!

[DBookatay]

Since a lot of my pages have forms, and links, is there any way that I can combine these statements, as a way to save space, and code writing?

if(isset($_POST['date_month'])); 
switch($_POST['date_month']) {
     case '01': $pTitle = 'January'; break;
     case '02': $pTitle = 'Febuary'; break;
     case '03': $pTitle = 'March'; break;
     case '04': $pTitle = 'April'; break;
     case '05': $pTitle = 'May'; break;
     case '06': $pTitle = 'June'; break;
     case '07': $pTitle = 'July'; break;
     case '08': $pTitle = 'August'; break;
     case '09': $pTitle = 'September'; break;
     case '10': $pTitle = 'October'; break;
     case '11': $pTitle = 'November'; break;
     case '12': $pTitle = 'December'; break;
  }

if(isset($_GET['date_month'])); 
switch($_GET['date_month']) {
     case '01': $pTitle = 'January'; break;
     case '02': $pTitle = 'Febuary'; break;
     case '03': $pTitle = 'March'; break;
     case '04': $pTitle = 'April'; break;
     case '05': $pTitle = 'May'; break;
     case '06': $pTitle = 'June'; break;
     case '07': $pTitle = 'July'; break;
     case '08': $pTitle = 'August'; break;
     case '09': $pTitle = 'September'; break;
     case '10': $pTitle = 'October'; break;
     case '11': $pTitle = 'November'; break;
     case '12': $pTitle = 'December'; break;
  }

 

Thanks...

[trq]

<?php

  if(isset($_REQUEST['date_month'])) {
    $pTitle = date("F",mktime(0,0,0,$_REQUEST['date_month']+1,0));
  }

?>

[DBookatay]

Thanks... This works perfect.

To combine month and year is this how it should be done:

	if(isset($_REQUEST['date_month'])) {
	$month = date("M",mktime(0,0,0,$_REQUEST['date_month']+1,0));
}
if(isset($_REQUEST['date_year'])) {
	$year = date("Y",mktime(0,0,0,$_REQUEST['date_year']+1,0));
}
$pTitle = ': '.$month.' '.$year;

 

or is there a better way?

[teng84]

using request is not good if you have the same index for the global variable like session post and get once you have the index x for get and post and you use request it will only get the last index or the value for the get or post might get over writen by one of the two

hope that helps

[trq]

Depends really. If your always expecting both month and year to be passed together, use...

 

<?php

 if(isset($_REQUEST['date_month']) && isset($_REQUEST['date_year'])) {
   $pTitle = date("M Y",mktime(0,0,0,$_REQUEST['date_month']+1,$_REQUEST['date_year']));
 }

?>

[trq]

using request is not good if you have the same index for the global variable like session post and get once you have the index x for get and post and you use request it will only get the last index or the value for the get or post might get over writen by one of the two

hope that helps

 

Im not 100% sure I follow your comment here. $_REQUEST has nothing at all to do with $_SESSION's. I understand the bit about get overiding post, but not sessions.