PHP: Populating an array with the names of the next 12 months

Question

for($x=0; $x<12; $x++)
{
    $month = mktime(0, 0, 0, date(\"m\")+$x, date(\"d\"),  date(\"Y\"));
    $key = date(\'m\', $month);
    $monthname = date(\'F\', $mo         


        

Answer 1

"Result is that $months would result in an array where 07 = July 08 = August, 09 = September."

for ($key = 1; $key <=12; $key++) {
    $months[str_pad($key, 2, '0', STR_PAD_LEFT)] = date('F', strtotime('2000-' . $key));
}

If you're okay with 7 = July 8 = August, 9 = September, then:

for ($key = 1; $key <=12; $key++) {
    $months[$key] = date('F', strtotime('2000-' . $key));
}

Answer 2

Less complicated, no loops, generic array keys:

function stackoverflow_get_monthname($x){ 
    return date("F",mktime(NULL, NULL, NULL, (int)date("n") + ($x+1), NULL, NULL)); 
}
$months = array_map("stackoverflow_get_monthname", range(1,12) );
var_dump($months);

Answer 3

Given 2592000 is 30 days.

$month_time = 60*60*24*30; // 30 Days
for($x=0; x<12; $x++)
{
     $time = time()+($month_time*$x);
     $key = date('m', $time);
     $month[$key] = date('F', $time);
}

In an answer on StackOverflow, can't find it right now, someone compared the performance of multiple methods of creating a time 1 week from now. Directly using numbers was much more efficient than any other method.

Answer 4

An alternative would be to use strtotime:

for ($x=0; $x < 12; $x++) {

    $time = strtotime('+' . $x . ' months', strtotime(date('Y-M' . '-01')));
    $key = date('m', $time);
    $name = date('F', $time);
    $months[$key] = $name;
}

In my opinion this code is easier to read.

Answer 5

Just fixed your code slightly, this should work pretty well:

$months = array();
$currentMonth = (int)date('m');

for ($x = $currentMonth; $x < $currentMonth + 12; $x++) {
    $months[] = date('F', mktime(0, 0, 0, $x, 1));
}

Note that I took out the array key, as I think it's unnecessary, but you can change that of course if you need it.

Answer 6

Here is a simple script to go forward 12 months from the current date. It includes the year with it.

# Set Number of Months to Traverse
$num_months = 12;

# Set Current Month as the 1st
$current_month = date('Y-m').'-01';

for ($count = 0; $count <= $num_months; $count++) {
    # Fetch Date for each as YYYY-MM-01
    $dates[] = date('Y-m', strtotime($current_month.' + '.$count.' Months')).'-01';
}

You could turn this into a select list with the current month selected by dropping this in:

echo '<select name="month">';

foreach ($dates as $d) {
    echo '<option value="'.$d.'"';
    if ($d == date('Y-m').'-01') echo 'selected="selected"';
    echo '>'.date('F, Y', strtotime($d)).'</option>';
}

echo '</select>';