convert month from name to number

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Is there an easy way to change  month    July   so that  nmonth   7   07 would be fine too   I could do a case statement  but surely there is already a function to convert  EDIT  I wish I could accept multiple answers  cause two of you basically gave me what I needed by your powers combined    nmonth   date  m  strtotime  month      That will give the numerical value for  month  Thanks

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you can also use this one    month    monthname   date  M   strtotime  month

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date    Dec 25 2099   echo date  d m Y   strtotime  date      This returns 01 01 1970  that means php doesn t support all dates  it returns correct formatted date till Jan 19 2038 but Jan 20 2038 returns 01 01 1970

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Use  date  F   mktime 0  0  0    month      where   month value will be 1 - gt  12

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I know this might seem a simple solution  but why not just use something like this   lt select name  month  gt     lt option value  01  gt January lt  option gt     lt option value  02  gt February lt  option gt     lt option selected value  03  gt March lt  option gt   lt  select gt    The user sees February  but 02 is posted to the database

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nmonth   date  m   strtotime  month

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If you want number of month from string name then   month    August    year   2019  echo date  m  strtotime  month      year      Gives 08  Or If you want the Full name of the month then  echo date  F     OR if you want the half name of the month then  echo date  M

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Try this    lt  php    date   date parse  July      var dump  date  month       gt

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dt    2017-Jan-10            OR  dt    2017-January-10        echo date  Y-m-d   strtotime  dt         echo date  Y m d   strtotime  dt

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With PHP 5 4  you can turn Matthew s answer into a one-liner    date   sprintf   d- d-01    year  date parse  may    month

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string    July   echo  month number   date  n  strtotime  string      returns  7   month number   Use date  m  strtotime  string    for the output  08    For more formats reffer this   http   php net manual en function date php

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It may be easiest to create a fake date so you can use the date function   Excellent reference here  http   php net manual en function date php  Example    lt    month   7    tempDate   mktime 0  0  0   month  1  1900     echo date  m   tempDate       gt

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Above answer is good  Here is another way to do -  function getMonthNumber  monthStr      e g   month  Jan  or  January  or  JAN  or  JANUARY  or  january  or  jan   m   ucfirst strtolower trim  monthStr     switch   m        case  January               case  Jan            m    01           break      case  February       case  Feb            m    02           break      case  March       case  Mar            m    03           break      case  April       case  Apr            m    04           break      case  May            m    05           break      case  June       case  Jun            m    06           break      case  July               case  Jul            m    07           break      case  August       case  Aug            m    08           break      case  September       case  Sep            m    09           break      case  October       case  Oct            m    10           break      case  November       case  Nov            m    11           break      case  December       case  Dec            m    12           break      default           m   false          break    return  m

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lt  php  monthNum   5   monthName   date  F   mktime 0  0  0   monthNum  10    echo  monthName    output  May   gt

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Yes    date    July 25 2010   echo date  d m Y   strtotime  date      The m formats the month to its numerical representation there

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Maybe use a combination with strtotime   and date

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monthname   date  F   strtotime  month      F means full month name

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An interesting look here  the code given by kelly works well      nmonth   date  m   strtotime  month      but for the month of february  it won t work as expected when the current day is 30 or 31 on leap year and 29 30 31 on non-leap year It will return 3 as month number  Ex      nmonth   date  m   strtotime  february       The solution is  add the year with the month like this      nmonth   date  m   strtotime  february-2012       I got this from this comment in php manual

[php] convert month from name to number

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