php - how to find the month names and numbers between two dates?

Question

I need to find the month names and numbers between two dates For the above two variables, how to find out the month numbers, ie) output will goes like this

aug2016,sep2016,oct2016,nov2016,dec2016,jan2017

Answer 1

<?php

$date1  = '2013-11-15';
$date2  = '2014-02-15';
$output = [];
$time   = strtotime($date1);
$last   = date('M-Y', strtotime($date2));

do {
$month = date('M-Y', $time);
$total = date('t', $time);

$output[] = $month;

$time = strtotime('+1 month', $time);
} while ($month != $last);

echo implode(",", $output);
?>

output

Nov-2013,Dec-2013,Jan-2014,Feb-2014 

Answer 2

Try this one

<?php 
 $var1 = "2016-08-15";
 $var2 = "2017-01-31";
 $result = '';
 while (date('m', strtotime($var1)) != date('m', strtotime($var2))) {
    $result .= date('MY',(strtotime('next month',strtotime($var1)))).",";   
    $var1 = date('Y-m-d',(strtotime('next month',strtotime($var1))));
 }
 echo trim($result, ",");
?>

Output : Sep2016,Oct2016,Nov2016,Dec2016,Jan2017

Answer 3

Correct me if I'm wrong but, based on the output you provided, it seems what you really want to do is extract a month name from month number.

See this: http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.jdmonthname.php

$monthName = jdmonthname($month, 0);

I think you should be able to take it from there.