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

Sometime you need to be careful on your locale, so this is my solution (in a function):

$months = [];

for ($x=1; $x < 13; $x++) {

    $time = mktime(0, 0, 0, $x, 1);
    $key = date('m', $time);
    $name =  ucfirst(strftime('%B', $time));
    $months[(int)$key] = $name;
}

return $months;

Answer 2

You might be getting the last day of the month (the 31st) bug - which led to two months with the same link - that Eddy very nicely figured out for me with this answer:

 $current_month = date('n');
$MONTHS = array();
for ($m=0; $m<12; $m++) {
  $display_month = $m + $current_month;
  $MONTHS[] = date('F',mktime(1,1,1,$display_month,1,date("Y")));