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Publisher Bucks · 08-20-2022, 12:23 AM

So, I have a block of text (list of months with description below) on a page that I'd like to update dynamically based on the month of the year for example, presently it looks like this:

January | February | March
April | May | June
July | August | September
October | November | December

What I'd like to happen, is for this month (September), the page to look like this, and every month the current month cycles to the first position:

September | October | November
December | January | February
March | April | May
June | July | August

What is the best way to achieve this please?

Presently the page itself is hard-coded, no database involved, but if its needs to go into a DB that isnt a problem, I'm just not sure what the best way to achieve this would be, i'm guessing I will end up having to use something to do with the php date function ("F")?

Any advice or suggestions greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

baodb · 08-20-2022, 08:55 AM

It depends a lot on how your page works. Is this dynamically built with PHP, Static rendered, spa?

redwhiteandblue · 08-20-2022, 10:13 AM

You get the current month of the year as a number with date("m").

sarettah · 08-20-2022, 11:20 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by redwhiteandblue

You get the current month of the year as a number with date("m").

Once you have the current month you can just loop through to make your list in the order you need it in.

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Publisher Bucks · 08-20-2022, 05:41 PM

Awesome, thank you

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