Convert number to month name in PHP

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I have this PHP code    monthNum   sprintf   02s    result  month      monthName   date  F   strtotime  monthNum     echo  monthName    But it s returning December rather than August    result  month   is equal to 8  so the sprintf function is adding a 0 to make it 08

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If you just want an array of month names from the beginning of the year to the end e g  to populate a drop-down select  I would just use the following   for   i   0   i  lt  12     i       months  m     m   date  F   strtotime  January   i months

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I think using cal info   is the easiest way to convert from number to string    monthNum   sprintf   02s    result  month       Returns  08   monthName   cal info 0     Returns Gregorian  Western  calendar array  monthName    monthName months   monthNum    echo  monthName    Returns  August    See the docs for cal info

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Am currently using the solution below to tackle the same issue     set locale   setlocale LC ALL  US       set the date to be converted  date    2016-08-07      convert date to month name  month name    ucfirst strftime   B   strtotime  date      echo  month name    To read more about set locale go to http   php net manual en function setlocale php  To learn more about strftime go to http   php net manual en function strftime php  Ucfirst   is used to capitalize the first letter in a string

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adapt as required     m  08    months   array  1  gt  Jan  2  gt  Feb  3  gt  Mar  4  gt  Apr  5  gt  May  6  gt  Jun  7  gt  Jul  8  gt  Aug  9  gt  Sep  10  gt  Oct  11  gt  Nov  12  gt  Dec    echo  months  int  m

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I figured everyone looking for this answer was probably just trying to avoid writing out the whole if else statements  so I wrote it out for you so you can copy paste   The only caveat with this function is that it goes on the actual number of the month  not a 0-indexed number  so January   1  not 0  function getMonthString  m       if  m  1           return  quot January quot        else if  m  2           return  quot February quot        else if  m  3           return  quot March quot        else if  m  4           return  quot April quot        else if  m  5           return  quot May quot        else if  m  6           return  quot June quot        else if  m  7           return  quot July quot        else if  m  8           return  quot August quot        else if  m  9           return  quot September quot        else if  m  10           return  quot October quot        else if  m  11           return  quot November quot        else if  m  12           return  quot December quot

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This for all needs of date-time converting     lt  php   newDate   new DateTime  2019-03-27 03 41 41     echo  newDate- gt format  M d  Y  h i s a       gt

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strtotime expects a standard date format  and passes back a timestamp  You seem to be passing strtotime a single digit to output a date format from  You should be using mktime which takes the date elements as parameters  Your full code   monthNum   sprintf  quot  02s quot    result  quot month quot      monthName   date  quot F quot   mktime null  null  null   monthNum     echo  monthName   However  the mktime function does not require a leading zero to the month number  so the first line is completely unnecessary  and  result  quot month quot   can be passed straight into the function  This can then all be combined into a single line  echoing the date inline  Your refactored code  echo date  quot F quot   mktime null  null  null   result  quot month quot    1

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Just because everyone is using strtotime   and date   functions  I will show DateTime example    dt   DateTime  createFromFormat   m    result  month     echo  dt- gt format  F

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this is trivially easy  why are so many people making such bad suggestions   Bora was the closest  but this is the most robust          returns the month in words for a given month number     date  F   strtotime date  Y    -   month  -01       this is the way to do it

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This is how I did it     sets Asia Calcutta time zone date default timezone set  Asia Calcutta       fetches current date and time  date   date  Y-m-d H i s      dateArray   date parse from format  Y m d    date    month   DateTime  createFromFormat   m    dateArray  month   - gt format  F     dateString    dateArray  day            month           dateArray  year     echo  dateString    returns 30 June 2019

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You need set fields with strtotime or mktime  echo date  F   strtotime  00-   result  month    -01       With mktime set only month  Try this one   echo date  F   mktime 0  0  0   result  month    1

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monthNum   5   monthName   date  F   mktime 0  0  0   monthNum  10      I found this on https   css-tricks com snippets php change-month-number-to-month-name  and it worked perfectly

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You can do it in just one line  DateTime  createFromFormat   m    salary- gt month - gt format  F      April

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days         Jan    Feb    Mar    Apr    Mai    Jun    Jul    Aug    Sep    Oct    Nov    Dec     month     date  m    lt  10     date  m   1    date  m      That extracts the months

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To do the conversion in respect of the current locale  you can use the strftime function   setlocale LC TIME   fr FR UTF-8                                                   monthName   strftime   B   mktime 0  0  0   monthNumber      date doesn t respect the locale  strftime does

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Use    name   jdmonthname gregoriantojd  monthNumber  1  1   CAL MONTH GREGORIAN LONG

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The recommended way to do this   Nowadays  you should really be using DateTime objects for any date time math  This requires you to have a PHP version    5 2  As shown in Glavic s answer  you can use the following    monthNum    3   dateObj     DateTime  createFromFormat   m    monthNum    monthName    dateObj- gt format  F       March   The   formatting character is used to reset everything to the Unix epoch  The m format character is the numeric representation of a month  with leading zeroes    Alternative solution   If you re using an older PHP version and can t upgrade at the moment  you could this solution  The second parameter of date   function accepts a timestamp  and you could use mktime   to create one  like so    monthNum    3   monthName   date  F   mktime 0  0  0   monthNum  10       March   If you want the 3-letter month name like Mar  change F to M  The list of all available formatting options can be found in the PHP manual documentation

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A simple tricks here you can use strtotime   function workable as per your need  a convert number to month name   1 If you want a result in Jan  Feb and Mar Then try below one with the  M  as a parameter inside the date    month 5   nmonth   date  M  strtotime  01-   month  -  date  Y      echo  nmonth    Output   May   2  You can try with the  F  instead of  M  to get the full month name as an output January February March etc    month 1   nmonth   date  M  strtotime  01-   month  -  date  Y      echo  nmonth    Output   January

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Use mktime      lt  php   monthNum   5    monthName   date  F   mktime 0  0  0   monthNum  10     echo  monthName     Output  May   gt    See the PHP manual   http   php net mktime

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If you have the month number  you can first create a date from it with a default date of 1st and default year of the current year  then extract the month name from the date created  echo date  quot F quot   strtotime date  quot Y quot     quot - quot    i   quot -01 quot     This code assumes you have your month number stored in  i

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There are many ways to print a month from the given number  Pick one suite for you   1  date   function along with parameter  F   Code example     month num   10  echo date  F   mktime 0  0  0   month num  10      output  October   2  By creating php date object using createFromFormat    Code Example   dateObj     DateTime  createFromFormat   m    monthNum   echo  month name     dateObj- gt format  F       Output  October   3  strtotime   function  echo date  F   strtotime  00-   monthNum  -01        Output  October   4  mktime   function  echo date  F   mktime null  null  null   monthNum       Output  October   5  By using jdmonthname     jd gregoriantojd  monthNum 10 2019   echo jdmonthname  jd 0      Output  Oct

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