change month number to name

[sattman]

I have a setting for a calendar that defaults the calender to the current month
<cfset cal_month=dateformat(now(), "m")>
This can be changed by the user to any month
When the month is displayed I want to show the name of the month instead of
the number, i.e. if cal_month is 1 I want it to display January.

I tried #dateformat(month(cal_month), "mmmm")# but it came back as december
everytime
I placed a #cal_month# next to it to make sure the month wasn't defaulting
somehow to 12 but it was still set as 1

thanks

[Dan Bracuk]

That would be the MonthAsString function.

[mxstu]

sattman,

Just for future reference. You don't need to use the month() function on
#cal_month# because you have already set it to a month number in this statement.

<cfset cal_month=dateformat(now(), "m")>

Dateformat() requires a valid date object (eg. date in format mm/dd/yyyy).
Here you are passing in a month number which is why it is returning the wrong
results.

#dateformat(month(cal_month), "mmmm")#

That said, use #MonthAsString(monthNumber)# instead.