Re: Date Conversion

Mark Bomgardner wrote:

PHP 4.4/MySQL 4.0 I am tying to convert a date to put into a database from a string (ie: January, February) to a numeric value (ie: 01,02). I am taking the value from a form, which is a drop down menu listing the months. $sMonth1 = $_POST['Smonth']; returns the money selected from the form. When I go to format the month from a string to numeric with date('m',strtotime($sMonth1)); it returns 12, no matter which month I select. In reading the docs at php.net, date('m',strtotime($sMonth1)); is correct to reformat from a string to a time format. What am I missing. mark bomgardner An idea along a different path would be....

for your original select box where you pick the month do something like this: <option value="01">January</option> <option value="02">Febuary</option> .... Then the value passed to your form will be the numeric representation of the month so there will be no need to translate the String --> number.. HTH -Brad