Question

I’m trying to retrieve the month using date.

$year= 2012;
$mon = date( 'F', mktime(0, 0, 0, $month,$year) );

In the above code snippet, $month is dynamically incremented. I have used a while loop with $month++. But it doesn’t give me the correct date.

For example, let’s say I gave $month=5 at the beginning, then it’s incremented till $month=12. Then the output should be something like

May
June
July... 

but, it’s output is:

November
December
January.....

why is this? Am I doing anything wrong here?

Answer 1

You forgot $date parameter. THe correct syntax of mktime is

mktime($hour,$minute,$second,$month,$day,$year);

so in your example $year will be considered as ‘date’

try something like

mktime(0,0,0,$month,1,$year);