[SOLVED] easy date question, i think

[rempires]

i'm pulling a lot fo dates out a database were the stored as Nov 20 1965 in 3 separate fields (there not in a date field because a lot of times i'm only working with 1 of them, or using them in the WHERE clause as only month or only day)

anyway my question is how do i easy convert something like Nov to 10, the date function in php seems only capable of handling it when there is a time stamp. is there a php function i can make say hey Nov = 10?

[Daukan]

You could make your own array of the months

<?php
$months = array(
    'jan'=>1,
    'feb'=>2.
    'mar'=>3);//ect...

$month = $months['jan'];
//result is 1
?>

[gin]

Actually, if it's a MySQL db, you can work with just a month or day from a date field by SELECTing MONTH(date) or DAY(date).