Loop through numeric representation of months, with leading zeros in PHP

loop-through-numeric-representation-of-months-with-leading-zeros-in-php.php

<?php

// get current timestamp
$timestamp    = time();

// get full numeric representation of a year, 4 digits
$current_year = date('Y', $timestamp);

// maximum number of months to display
$max_monhts   = 12;

for($i = 1; $i <= $max_monhts; $i++){
    echo date('m', strtotime('01.'.$i.'.'.$current_year));
    echo '<br/>';
}


// EXAMPLE OUTPUT

// 01
// 02
// 03
// 04
// 05
// 06
// 07
// 08
// 09
// 10
// 11
// 12