Problem with the mktime function

[benj0323]

This is really strange but the mktime() function is acting really weird for me. I'll just write the code and then next to it write what it displays.

Here is the original code
$option_disp = date('F',mktime(0,0,0,$i));
Where $i increases by 1 from 1 - 12.

Here is the output I get.

$option_disp = date('F',mktime(0,0,0,1));
This outputs January.

$option_disp = date('F',mktime(0,0,0,2));
This outputs March.

Where did February go?
Is there a better way to do this?

Any help is greatly appreciated. Thank you.

[vincevincevince]

$option_disp = date('F',mktime(0, 0, 0, $i, 0, 0));

[RonPK]

If you leave out the day and year, the current values will be used. Today that would be mktime(0,0,0,2,31,2004), which doesn't make sense.

Try date('F',mktime(0,0,0,$i,1)) as all months have a first day.