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r1pster
r1pster

Reputation: 145

PHP: Find the next closest month in Array

Given an array which looks like this:

$months = array("mar","jun","sep","dec");

And the current month:

$current_month = date("m");

Is there a way to find the next closest month to the current month?

For example:

Upvotes: 1

Views: 232

Answers (3)

Nathan Dawson
Nathan Dawson

Reputation: 19308

I like @Rizier123's solution so I thought I'd write up an implementation.

First, let's convert the months array into numerical values which represent the month. We're going to preserve the text as the key to make the matching process easier at the end. If you have control over those months then it's quite simple:

$months = [ 'mar' => 3, 'jun' => 6, 'sep' => 9, 'dec' => 12];

If you don't have control over the array you'll need to run it through array_map() and use date to convert:

$month_keys = $months;

$months = array_map( function( $month ) {
    return date( 'm', strtotime( $month ) );
}, $months );

$months = array_combine( $month_keys, $months );

Then let's find the next closest value in the array:

$closest_month = null;

foreach ( $months as $month_text => $month_num ) {
    if ( $current_month <= $month_num ) {
        $closest_month = $month_text;
        break;
    }
}

$closest_month should now match all of the conditions set out in your question.

Upvotes: 1

trincot
trincot

Reputation: 349946

Assuming that you want to get the last month of the current quarter, you could do it like this:

$monthName = ["mar", "jun", "sep", "dec"][floor((date('n') - 1) / 3)];

Upvotes: 3

xsami
xsami

Reputation: 1330

Just need to add all the months and print the position of the next moth.

<?php
$months = array("jan", "feb", "mar", "apr", "may", "jun", "jul", "aug", "sep", "oct", "nov", "dec");
$current_month = date("m");

// The next moth must be the current month + 1 but as the index start from 0 we dont need to add + 1
// So we print 
echo $months[ $current_month % count($months)];

As the array position start from 0 you don't need to add +1

Upvotes: 2

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