[RESOLVED] Drop Down Box Help

[focus310]

Hello:

I have a script which contains a drop down boxes for month, day, year and location.

When the person clicks submit another script processes the form. In this script, I would like to show the name of the month not the numeric value of the month. When I display the date, I get 112007. I would like to show 'January" rather than "1" and I would like the date to display as January 1, 2007.

My question is how do I use the label from the drop down box for month so the name of the month appears? Also, how do I format this date?

Here is how the drop down boxes appear:

<?php
          $months = array (1 => 'January', 'February', 'March', 'April', 'May', 'June', 'July', 'August',
                'September', 'October', 'November', 'December');

            //Make the days and years arrays

           $days = range (1,31);
           $years = range (2007, 2015);

           //Make the months pull-down menu

           echo '<select name="month">';
           foreach ($months as $key => $value) {
           echo "<option value=\"$key\">$value</option>\n";
              }
           echo '</select>';

           //Make the days pull-down menu

           echo '<select name="day">';
           for ($day = 1; $day <= 31; $day++) {
           echo "<option value=\"$day\">$day</option>\n";
            }
           echo '</select>';

          //Make the years pull down menu

          echo '<select name="year">';
          $year = 2007;
          while ($year <= 2015) {
          echo "<option value=\"$year\">$year</option>\n";
          $year++;
            }
          echo '</select>';

?>
    </td></tr>
<tr><td><b>Property Location:</b></td><td>&nbsp;</td>
    <td><select name="location" size=1>
        <option value=GA>Georgia</option></select></td></tr>

This is the portion of the script which displays the date:

<tr><td><b>Planned Closing Date:</b></td><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td><?php echo $_SESSION['month'] . $_SESSION['day'] . $_SESSION['year']; ?></td></tr>

Can someone help me out?
Thanks.

[MrCoder]

<?php
$date = date("F j, Y", mktime(0, 0, 0, $_SESSION['month'], $_SESSION['day'], $_SESSION['year']));
?>
<tr><td><b>Planned Closing Date:</b></td><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td><?php echo $date; ?></td></tr>

[focus310]

Thank you, that worked perfectly.

[MrCoder]

Glad I could help!