On , rabin.vincent@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> I see Paul N. solved your selection problem. But I'm wondering
> why you need to store month names in a database. You could
> get them using date() and mktime() and avoid a db hit:
>
> foreach (range(1, 12) as $i) {
> echo date('F', mktime(0, 0, 0, $i));
> }
That's the right general idea, but as written has some specific problems:
(i) Using midnight when getting dates is not a good idea -- it can cause problems in some timezones on DST shift dates. I always use midday when I'm interested purely in the date.
(ii) Omitting the day-of-month will give wrong answers on the 29th (non-leap years), 30th and 31st of any month. I leave the reason behind this as an exercise for the reader... ;)
Therefore, I submit that a safer version of the above would be:
foreach (range(1, 12) as $i):
echo date('F', mktime(12, 0, 0, $i, 1));
endforeach;
Cheers!
Mike
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