Retrieving month name 1

malaygal · Jun 20, 2007

I have a variable that is pulling a short month from a form:

var strCurrMonth = document.thisform.txtMonth.value (i.e Jun)

How can I convert it to an integer reperesentation of the month (6 or 5 if zero-based)
I need to get the previous month's string name from this, something like this:

var intCurrMonth = getMonth(strMonth)
var intPrevMonth = intCurrMonth - 1
var strPrevMonth = getMonthName(intPrevMonth)

kaht · Jun 20, 2007

Here's one way of doing it:

Code:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">[/URL]
<html xmlns="[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">[/URL]
<head>
<title>title test</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" />
<script type="text/javascript">

var monthNames = ["Jan", "Feb", "Mar", "Apr", "May", "Jun", "Jul", "Aug", "Sep", "Oct", "Nov", "Dec"];

var a = monthNames[5];  //Jun
var b = new Date(a + " 1, 2000");

var intCurrMonth = b.getMonth()
b.setMonth(b.getMonth() - 1);
var intPrevMonth = b.getMonth();
var strPrevMonth = monthNames[intPrevMonth];

alert("intCurrMonth: " + intCurrMonth);
alert("intPrevMonth: " + intPrevMonth);
alert("strPrevMonth: " + strPrevMonth);

</script>
<style type="text/css"></style>
</head>
<body>

</body>
</html>

-kaht

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malaygal · Jun 21, 2007

Thank you. That works great.

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Retrieving month name 1

malaygal

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