printing array containing date php

Question

Not as simple as it sounds I believe, but I have the following and trying to print the month name from date provided.

public function convertEngDateToAr($engDate)
    {
        //SELECT MONTHNAME('2009-05-18');
        $connectionInstance = new ConnectionClass();
        $connection = $connectionInstance->connectToDatabase();
        $monthResult = $connection->query("SELECT MONTHNAME('$engDate')");
        //echo "Month: " . $monthResult;
        while($row = $monthResult->fetch_assoc())
        {
            print_r($row);
        }

    }

The above gets me this output:

Array ( [MONTHNAME('2012-08-21')] => August )

How can I get August alone out of the array and store it in variable? The only weird thing here is that the index in the array is just strange.

Thank

Answer 1

Try changing SELECT MONTHNAME('$engDate')" to SELECT MONTHNAME('$engDate') as monthName"

Then you should see:

Array ( monthName => August )

Then you can use:

    while($row = $monthResult->fetch_assoc())
    {
        $myMonth=$row['monthName'];
    }

Answer 2

You can either use SELECT MONTHNAME(xxxx) AS monthName or you could return an indexed array instead of an associative one:

while($row = $monthResult->fetch_row())
  echo $row[0] . "\n";