[jwman]

Hey guys,

How can I take two dates (say 2005-12-29 and 2007-01-17)... and echo all the months between these dates?

So:

January 2007
December 2006
November 2006
October 2006
September 2006
August 2006
July 2006
June 2006
May 2006
April 2006
March 2006
February 2006
January 2006
December 2005

If you get me?

Thanks,
Jordan

[healdem]

..well I suppose you could write a function which returns the months as required
it could return the values as an array if you wanted to use the returned values elsewhere in the script

[jwman]

Ok... so I used the code:

PHP Code:

function get_months($date1, $date2) {

$time1 = strtotime($date1);
$time2 = strtotime($date2);
$my = date('mY', $time2);
$months = array(date('F', $time1));
$f = '';

while($time1 < $time2) {
$time1 = strtotime((date('Y-m-d', $time1).' +15days'));

if(date('F', $time1) != $f) {
$f = date('F', $time1);

if(date('mY', $time1) != $my && ($time1 < $time2))
$months[] = date('F', $time1);
}

}

$months[] = date('F', $time2);
return $months;
}





print("<pre>");
print_r(get_months('2005-02-20', '2005-12-31'));
print("</pre>"); 


Which echos:

Array
(
    [0] => February
    [1] => March
    [2] => April
    [3] => May
    [4] => June
    [5] => July
    [6] => August
    [7] => September
    [8] => October
    [9] => November
    [10] => December
)

How can I get rid of everything but the actual months?

[dbmab]

What do you mean "get rid of everything but the actual months"? The data is in whatever form your code was written to cause it to be in.

Since you place the information into an array and return that array from the function, you have an array. You can then use a foreach(...) loop to iterate through each element in the array or instead of placing the information into an array, concatenate it into a string with the formatting you want in the function and return that string from the function.

[shauntobias]

This should work...

PHP Code:

$data = get_months('2005-02-20', '2005-12-31');

for($i=0;$i<count($data);$i++){
 $month = $data[$i];
 echo "$month<br>";
} 


[aschk]

If you want to make it even shorter :

$data = get_months('2005-02-20', '2005-12-31');

for($i=0;$i<count($data);$i++){
 echo $data[$i]."<br>";
}  

You don't even need the variable assignment. What a waste of memory!

[shauntobias]

yeah every little helps

[dbmab]

Shortest (tested) -

PHP Code:

foreach(get_months('2005-02-20', '2005-12-31') as $value){
echo "$value<br />";
}