One man’s voice

<?php
/**
 * Gets the next 12 months of the year, starting again at January.
 * 
 * This function will return an array of 'month year' for the next twelve months
 * 
 * @access public
 * @return array Array of month and year strings
 */
function getNextMonths() {
    /**
     * Get this month by number
     * 
     * Using the numeric value of the month allows for easy transposition into a 
     * new array.
     */
    $tm = date('n');
 
    /**
     * Get this year - because we will need this for the string output
     */
    $ty = date('Y');
 
    /**
     * Array of months keyed at 1
     * 
     * These are keyed at 1 because the date() function does this
     */
    $ms = array(1 => 'January', 'February', 'March', 'April', 'May', 'June', 'July', 'August', 'September', 'October', 'November', 'December');
 
    /**
     * Create a variable to hold out output array
     */
    $ma = array();
 
    /**
     * Now build the array, using only one loop
     */
    for ($j = 1, $i = $tm; $j <= 12; $i++, $j++, $ma[$j] = $i <= 12 ? "$ms[$i] $ty" : $ms[$i-12].' '.($ty+1));
 
    /**
     * Send back what we just made
     */
    return $ma;
}
 
/**
 * Output control - for the record, I do not count this as a line of code :-)
 */
header('Content-Type: text/plain');
 
/**
 * Test it
 */
var_dump(getNextMonths());
?>

<?php
/**
 * Gets the next 12 months from this month
 * 
 * @return array Array of "month year" strings
 */
function getNextMonths() {
    for ($i = 1; $i < 13; $i++) {
        $array[] = date('F Y', mktime(0, 0, 0, date('m') + $i, 1, date('y')));
    }
 
    return $array;
}
 
// Test it
var_dump(getNextMonths());
?>