note 17095 deleted from control-structures.switch by jimw

for english or american people are no problem for name of month, but for the italian(as me) or some people that no speak english this can be a good solution for insert the name of month. //this is my date $date="2001-11-26"; //extraction 3 parts of date $year=substr($date,0,4); $mounth0=substr($date,5,2); $day=substr($date,8,2); //part of switch, //more IMPORTANT switch($mounth0){ case 1: $mounth="Gennaio"; //or january break; case 2: $mounth="Febbraio"; break; case 3: $mounth="Marzo"; break; case 4: $mounth="Aprile"; break; case 5: $mounth="Maggio"; break; case 6: $mounth="Giugno"; break; case 7: $mounth="Luglio"; break; case 8: $mounth="Agosto"; break; case 9: $mounth="Settembre"; break; case 10: $mounth="Ottobre"; break; case 11: $mounth="Novembre"; break; case 12: $mounth="Dicembre"; break; } echo"$day-$mounth-$year"; in this way we have change date format and we have get a name at the mounth with italian language. Probably this isn't a way more fast but this is the more easy ;-)