In PHP given a month string such as “November” how can I return 11 without using a 12 part switch statement?

Question

I.e.

Month        Returns
January      1
February     2
March        3
April        4
May          5
June         6
July         7
August       8
September           


        

Answer 1

I can't imagine this is more efficient, but it works

$t = strtotime("March");
echo date('n',$t);