note 103584 added to function.date

From: Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2011 09:23:35 +0000
Subject: note 103584 added to function.date
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I was looking for a way to return a list of months between now and a previous month for use in a select field. I came up with the following as I couldn't find anything else. There is probably an easier way to do it, but this way was quite interesting. <?php $start=strtotime("01 January 2010"); $now=strtotime(date("d F Y")); while($now>=$start) { echo "<option value=\"$now\">" . date('F Y', $now) . "</option>\n"; $now=$now-(60*60*24*(365/12)); } ?> ---- Server IP: 87.124.126.137 Probable Submitter: 92.27.86.226 (proxied: 92.27.86.226) ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.date.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/103584 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/103584/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/103584/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/103584/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/103584/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/103584/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/103584/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/103584 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/103584 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php

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