This is because of your mktime() call. You're trying to get the zeroth day of
the month, which is the last day of the preceding month. Using mktime(0, 0, 0,
$i, 1) instead should give you the desired results, assuming you do start at 1,
and not 0 as you have in your code.
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Simon Welsh
On 17/10/2010, at 4:12, Jason Pruim <li...@pruimphotography.com> wrote:
> Okay so I'm just playing around with some stuff trying to learn more and
> expand my knowledge and I ran into something I don't understand... Take the
> following code:
>
> <?PHP
>
> echo "<select>";
> $i ="0";
> while($i <="12") {
>
> $dateformat = date("M", mktime(0,0,0, $i,0,0));
> $month = mktime(0,0,0, $i,0,0);
> //echo date("M", mktime(0,0,0, $i,0,0));
> //echo "<br>inside while<br>";
> echo <<<HTML
> <option value="{$i}">{$dateformat} {$i}</option>
> HTML;
> $i++;
> }
> echo "</select>";
>
> ?>
>
> which does display a select drop down box with the month's in it... But on my
> test server it starts the display at december... With setting $i = "1" i
> would have thought it should start at january?
>
> Any ideas on what I missed? :)
>
>
> Thanks for looking! :)
>
>
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