PHP Month Name

[phaedo5]

I'd like to make a simple list of month names - January through December where the starting month is the current month:

 

February

March

April...

 

I was going to go simple adding 1 to date('F'), but that doesn't work.  What would be the best way of doing this?

[p2grace]

This should do the trick:

 

echo date("F",strtotime("Jan"))."<br />";
for($i=1;$i<=11;$i++){
echo date('F',strtotime("Jan +$i month"))."<br />";
}

 

 

[obsidian]

IMHO, here's a cleaner way:

<?php
// Start with current month
$curr_month = date('m');
for ($i = 0; $i < 12; $i++)
{
  echo date('F', mktime(0,0,0,$curr_month + $i)) . '<br />';
}
?>

 

**EDIT**

BTW, if you did want to use strtotime() for this, here's an easy way to modify the above:

<?php
for ($i = 0; $i < 12; $i++)
{
  echo date('F', strtotime("+{$i} month")) . '<br />';
}
?>

[p2grace]

It was my understanding that he didn't want to start with the current month, he wants to start with the first month.  Jan-Dec. 

[obsidian]

It was my understanding that he didn't want to start with the current month, he wants to start with the first month.  Jan-Dec. 

 

Here's a refresher of the OP (note the part in bold):

 

I'd like to make a simple list of month names - January through December where the starting month is the current month

 

Either way, even starting with January, you could consolidate slightly like this:

<?php
for ($i = 0; $i < 12; $i++)
{
  echo date('F', strtotime("January 1 +{$i} month")) . '<br />';
}
?>

[p2grace]

Yeup that one would work.