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Author RE: [PHP-DB] Converting the Month from a word into the numerical expression
Bastien Koert

2005-10-07, 7:58 am


Whoops misunderstood the other one

$month = Date("m",strtotime($month));

Another option is to use an array and then invert it to get the value

$month="Jun";
$Months = array("Jan","Feb","Mar"..."Dec");
$Inv_Month = array_flip($Months);
$month_num = $Inv_Month($month);

bastien

>From: "Ron Piggott" <ron.php@actsministries.org>
>Reply-To: "Ron Piggott" <ron.php@actsministries.org>
>To: "PHP DB" <php-db@lists.php.net>
>Subject: [PHP-DB] Converting the Month from a word into the numerical
>expression
>Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2005 23:09:43 -0500
>
>I have the word for the month stored in the variable $month In this
>example $month may be equal to "June". I wonder if there is a way to use
>the DATE function to convert this into a numberical expression --- in this
>example 06 Ron
>
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