How do you convert a month number, e.g. 02, into month name, i.e. February?

For the moment, I have this in my PHP script:


It works, but I was wondering if there is something else already available that I am not aware of.

That seems, so far, about the easiest way to get it done.

Not sure if you have that in a function, but here's a code snippet that does:
http://www.phpit.net/code/get-month-name/

I think it's overkill to write a whole function for something that's just one line long, and for something I have a use for only once, and in a loop.

It was a 'design flaw', the text file that holds the data for the gid_archive.php page only contains numeric month & year data. It should have been unix timestamps.

Your right, one liner, used once -- no function needed!
(just didn't know the scope of use)

But thank you for confirming that this is the best way to get the information, at least I can move on to other things instead of wasting my time searching for a better solution that isn't there. I can be obsessive sometimes