I have created an array
$myArray = [
'JAN' => '01',
'jan' => '01',
'FEB' => '02',
'feb' => '02',
'MAR' => '03',
'mar' => '03',
'APR' => '04',
'apr' => '04',
'MAY' => '05',
'may' => '05',
'JUNE' => '06',
'june' => '06',
'JUL' => '07',
'jul' => '07',
'AUG' => '08',
'aug' => '08',
'SEPT' => '09',
'sept' => '09',
'OCT' => '10',
'oct' => '10',
'NOV' => '11',
'nov' => '11',
'DEC' => '12',
'dec' => '12',
];
The above array is inside my function. This function accepts a string. The string is the short form of a month and it can be any of the months in a year. So I want to search my input variable with the array provided that if it matched any of the given elements then it will return the month number.
How can I do this?
Any help would be highly appreciated.
To give another answer to this, you can just use thedate
functions, for example;
$month_name = "march"; // or MARCH (case doesn't matter)
$month_number = date("m", strtotime($month_name));
echo $month_number; // echos 03
You can also use short names for this, for example;
$month_name = "mar"; // or MAR (case doesn't matter)
$month_number = date("m", strtotime($month_name));
echo $month_number; // echos 03
This greatly reduces your need for arrays and dictionaries
You can omit lowercase or uppercase letters from your array and cast given key to lower/uppercase letters. For example drop lowercase values and your array will look like this
$myArray = [
'JAN' => '01',
'FEB' => '02',
'MAR' => '03',
'APR' => '04',
'MAY' => '05',
'JUNE' => '06',
'JUL' => '07',
'AUG' => '08',
'SEPT' => '09',
'OCT' => '10',
'NOV' => '11',
'DEC' => '12'
];
to get value from array use strtoupper()
$key = 'mar';
$month = $myarray[strtoupper($key)]; // $month = '03'
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