[RESOLVED] Drop Down Box Help

Hello:

I have a script which contains a drop down boxes for month, day, year and location.

When the person clicks submit another script processes the form. In this script, I would like to show the name of the month not the numeric value of the month. When I display the date, I get 112007. I would like to show ‘January” rather than “1” and I would like the date to display as January 1, 2007.

My question is how do I use the label from the drop down box for month so the name of the month appears? Also, how do I format this date?

Here is how the drop down boxes appear:

[code=php]
<?php
$months = array (1 => ‘January’, ‘February’, ‘March’, ‘April’, ‘May’, ‘June’, ‘July’, ‘August’,
‘September’, ‘October’, ‘November’, ‘December’);

//Make the days and years arrays

$days = range (1,31);
$years = range (2007, 2015);

//Make the months pull-down menu

echo ‘<select name=”month”>’;
foreach ($months as $key => $value) {
echo “<option value=”$key”>$value</option>n”;
}
echo ‘</select>’;

//Make the days pull-down menu

echo ‘<select name=”day”>’;
for ($day = 1; $day <= 31; $day++) {
echo “<option value=”$day”>$day</option>n”;
}
echo ‘</select>’;

//Make the years pull down menu

echo ‘<select name=”year”>’;
$year = 2007;
while ($year <= 2015) {
echo “<option value=”$year”>$year</option>n”;
$year++;
}
echo ‘</select>’;

?>
</td></tr>
<tr><td><b>Property Location:</b></td><td>&nbsp;</td>
<td><select name=”location” size=1>
<option value=GA>Georgia</option></select></td></tr>
[/code]

This is the portion of the script which displays the date:

[code=php]
<tr><td><b>Planned Closing Date:</b></td><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td><?php echo $_SESSION[‘month’] . $_SESSION[‘day’] . $_SESSION[‘year’]; ?></td></tr>
[/code]

Can someone help me out?
Thanks.

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