Re: [PHP] 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/[email protected]/0002.php