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Am am current facing a problem that need a solution ASAP.

I am trying to list all months of the current year(2012) by using the following code:

for ($m=1; $m<=12; $m++) {
     $month = date('F', mktime(0,0,0,$m));
     echo $month. '<br>';
     }

But am getting the following unexpected output:

January March March May May July July August October October December December

What am I doing wrong please help!!!

Sboniso Marcus Nzimande
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7 Answers7

38

Try this:

for ($m=1; $m<=12; $m++) {
     $month = date('F', mktime(0,0,0,$m, 1, date('Y')));
     echo $month. '<br>';
     }
iWizard
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11

not as with mktime but equally powerful

$array = array("January", "February",.....);
for ($m=0; $m<12; $m++) {
     echo $array[$m]. '<br>';
     }
Raab
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6

I guess you should loop it in this manner. 

for($i = 1 ; $i <= 12; $i++)
{
 echo date("F",strtotime(date("Y")."-".$i."-01"));
 echo "<br/>";
}

Or in your case, you want to use mktime()

for($i = 1 ; $i <= 12; $i++)
{
 echo date("F",mktime(0,0,0,$i,1,date("Y")));
 echo "<br/>";
}
sephoy08
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5

Set day in mktime() to 1, otherwise conversion is performed: 30.2.2012 = 1.3.2012

$month = date('F', mktime(0,0,0,$m,1));
Jan Turoň
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3

Pay attention to the localization.

You can also use this 

setlocale(LC_TIME, 'it_IT');
for($m=1;$m<=12;$m++){
  echo strftime("%B", mktime(0, 0, 0, $m, 12));
}

Changing the parameter on the function setlocale() you can display the localized text.

list of setlocale codes

omabra
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1

I know this is old, but here is a different PHP 7+ DateTime based approach to get an array of month names:

$monthSet = array_map(
    fn (int $m): string => (DateTime::createFromFormat('m-d', "$m-1")->format('F')),
    range(1, 12),
);

Explanation:

  • range() produces an array [1...12]
  • array_map() runs the arrow function on each of these numeric months $m
  • createFromFormat() is passed $m and 1 as the day (otherwise the day defaults to the current day and e.g. Feb-31 would overflow to the next month).
chris
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0

If you use laravel

@for ($x = 1; $x <= 12; $x++)
<option value="{{$x}}">{{date('F', mktime(0, 0, 0, $x, 10))}}</option>
@endfor
soefyan syah
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