Question

I am using the following code in php to convert the month in numeric to textural representation.

date('M',strtotime(8));

But for every digit I am getting ‘Dec’ as my month.

How should i make it work.

Thank you
Zeeshan

Answer 1

But for every digit I am getting ‘Dec’ as my month.

That’s no surprise: strtotime(8) will give you 0 – and that is January 1st, 1970, 0:00:00 UTC, in your local time zone (where it was still december at that point).

You could use

$month = 8;
date("M", strtotime("1970-$month-01"));

(the 1970 is totally irrelevant – it could be any year.)

Alternatively, maybe more beautifully, use mktime() as shown by nikic.