Re: Month with leading zeros

Jim Lucas wrote:

Ron Piggott wrote:

I am wanting to change

         echo "<option value=\"" . $months[$month] . "\"";

to output the month number, between 01 and 12 --- DATE value m, the month with leading 0's. How do I do this? $months is an array, as I have shown below. Ron <?php $months = array('1' => 'January', '2' => 'February', '3' => 'March', '4' => 'April', '5' => 'May', '6' => 'June', '7' => 'July', '8' => 'August', '9' => 'September', '10' => 'October', '11' => 'November', '12' => 'December'); $current_month = DATE("n"); echo "<SELECT NAME=\"order_received_month\">\r\n"; foreach (range(1, 12) as $month)

     {
         echo "<option value=\"" . $months[$month] . "\"";

if ( $month == $current_month ) { echo " SELECTED";} echo">" . $months[$month] . "</option>\r\n";

     }

?> </select>

Ok, I will show you two different ways to do this. <?php $months = array( '1' => 'January', '2' => 'February', '3' => 'March', '4' => 'April', '5' => 'May', '6' => 'June', '7' => 'July', '8' => 'August', '9' => 'September', '10' => 'October', '11' => 'November', '12' => 'December', ); foreach ( $months AS $i => $month ) { $sel = ( $i == date('n') ? ' selected="selected"' : ''); echo "<option value='{$month}' {$sel}>{$month}</option>\r\n"; } ?> Personally, I would do something like this. <?php $options = array(); for ( $i=1; $i<13; $i++ ) { $month = date('F', mktime(0,0,0,$i,2,2000)); $sel = ( $i == date('n') ? ' selected="selected"' : ''); $options[] = "<option value='{$month}' {$sel}>{$month}</option>"; } $options_list = join("\r\n", $options); echo "<select>{$options_list}</select>"; ?> Now, if you are wanting to display the numerical month with leading zero's, then you would want to look at the 'm' option for date() or str_pad(). something like this might show you what you need. <?php # str_pad test echo str_pad(3, 2, '0', STR_PAD_LEFT) ?> Hope this helps understand a little more. Jim

sorry should have included this in the first one. http://www.cmsws.com/examples/php/testscripts/ron.php@actsministries.org/0002.php