PHP - Sort Months into order

Hello,
I have an array which is produced by some other coding, essenitally it follows this santax:

Code:

array("September, "March", "December", "August", "January")

What I want to be able to do is to order these, so it would be:

Code:

array("January", "March", "August", "September", "December")

All i can think of doing is comparing it to the months in order, but can find a function to 'Sort By Array'.

I've tried using array_multisort() but with no sucess.

Any Ideas?

Marty

 

Fixed,
I set the months using:

Code:

date(n)

Which sets it to the month date 1 - January / 12 - December.
Example array:

Code:

$retrived_months = array("6", "1", "12");

I Then ordered that array using the command below:

Code:

asort($retrived_months); 

This would give the months in numerical order.

Code:

$retrived_months = array("1", "6", "12");

I then made a simple function to convert the numerical to the word:

Code:

foreach($retrived_months as $key => $value){getmonth($value)." ";}

Which resulted in:

Code:

January June December

Function

Code:

function getmonth($value)
{
switch($value){
	case '1':
	$month = "January";
	break;
	
	case '2':
	$month = "February";
	break;
	
	case '3':
	$month = "March";
	break;
	
	case '4':
	$month = "April";
	break;
	
	case '5':
	$month = "May";
	break;
	
	case '6':
	$month = "June";
	break;
	
	case '7':
	$month = "July";
	break;
	
	case '8':
	$month = "August";
	break;
	
	case '9':
	$month = "September";
	break;
	
	case '10':
	$month = "October";
	break;
	
	case 11:
	$month = "November";
	break;
	
	case 12:
	$month = "December";
	break;
	
	}
	return $month;
}

Which returned the Month 1 as January / Month 6 as June... Etc..
Just as i needed!

Is there a cleaner way of doing it?

Hope this helps anyone else trying to achive a similar thing!

Marty