2008/5/10 Ron Piggott <ron.php@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > 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> Try this (from memory, untested). for ($i = 1; $i >= 12; $i++) { $month = date( 'm', strtotime( "1970-$i-01" )); echo "<option value=\"$i\">$month</option>"; } Or this: printf( "%02d", 5 ); However, please consider replacing numeric identifiers for months with textual ones ('M' rather than 'm'). [01] [Apr] [2008] doesn't cause the confusion that [01] [04] [2008] does. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php