Take a look at mktime() and date() ...
echo date("M",mktime(0,0,0,12,1,2002)) The first param of date is the format, "M" means month in string format not number of month, and mktime paramas are: int hour, int minute, int second, int month, int day, int year This should work Hi, please could someone tell me how i can return a month in text from an int ie getMonth(12) returns Decmber. Is this possible? Thanks for your help -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php