Matthew Vaccaro

Switch WP Date Number to Month

While working with custom post types and some event/date related stuff, I came upon an issue of how to easily transform the numbered output of the jQuery date picker I was using for users to choose dates inside a custom post type, into the abbreviated month names such as Jan. and Feb. (As opposed to 01 and 02).

EDIT: This was more complex, but I neutered it down to fit this specific example.

<?php

$date = 01-08-2011;

list($year, $month, $day) = explode("-", $date);

switch ($month) {
case "01":
	echo "JAN";
	break;
case "02":
	echo "FEB";
	break;
case "03":
	echo "MAR";
	break;
case "04":
	echo "APR";
	break;
case "05":
	echo "MAY";
	break;
case "06":
	echo "JUN";
	break;
case "07":
	echo "JUL";
	break;
case "08":
	echo "AUG";
	break;
case "09":
	echo "SEPT";
	break;
case "10":
	echo "OCT";
	break;
case "11":
	echo "NOV";
	break;
case "12":
	echo "DEC";
break;
}

echo '<span class="eventDay">'; echo $day; echo '</span>';							

?>