I just found a way to compute the correct string in PHP. I don't know how
to make it available as a "magic word". I looked at the "meta" site
and the
code, but I didn't find an easy solution.
It is possible that a solution could come from the world of templates -- I'm
not an expert, but it seems doable. For example, you could have an array
that is indexed by {{CURRENTMONTH}} which gives the previous month's name.
has a DAYSUNTILSUNDAY template that might prove
instructive. It does a lookup into an array that returns a string based on
the day of the week. Yours would return a string based on the month number.
You will also need to have (or add) Template:array from wikipedia to your
wiki.
That's about all I can do on this now. Perhaps someone else can add.
-- Joshua
On 3/15/06 2:38 AM, "Bierens,Gerard G.J.M." <G.Bierens(a)fontys.nl> wrote:
Hello Joshua,
That makes sense to me, but where do I add this code?
-- Gerard
Joshua Yeidel yeidel at
wsu.edu
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RRENTMONTHNAME%7D%7D%20minus%20one&In-Reply-To=399E1B1730511340ACC9D56B8
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Sat Mar 11 02:23:17 UTC 2006
Try:
$lastmonthname = date("F", mktime(0, 0, 0, date("m")-1,
date("d"),
date("Y")));
It may depend on your version of PHP; there have been changes to
date/time
functions, some of which are documented at:
http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.date.php
<http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.date.php>
-- Joshua
On 3/10/06 3:37 AM, "Bierens,Gerard G.J.M." <G.Bierens at fontys.nl
<http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l> > wrote:
Just like {{CURRENTMONTHNAME}} would give
'March', is it possible to
automatically get the previous month?
Thanks,
Gerard
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