Semester using months results

[lindsaycb]

You would think it would be simple
So then why doesn't this work?

I've tried these two:

$currentMonth = date("m");
$semester = "";
if ($currentMonth >= 01 && $currentMonth <= 05) {
	$semester = "Spring";
} elseif ($currentMonth >= 06 && $currentMonth <= 08) {
	$semester = "Summer";
} else {
	$semester = "Winter"; }

$currentMonth = date("m");
$semester = "0";
if ($currentMonth > 00 && $currentMonth < 06) {
    $semester = "Spring";
  } elseif ($currentMonth > 05 && $currentMonth < 09) { 
  $semester = "Summer";
  } else {
  $semester = "Winter"; }

It will give me either Winter using the && operator and Spring if I use the ||. But neither will give me Summer, which is what it should be since it's 07.

What do you think? Is it possible to get this to work?

[lindsaycb]

My brother told me use a switch:

switch ($currentMonth) {
case 01:
case 02:
case 03:
case 04:
case 05:
    $semester = "Spring";
    break;
case 06:
case 07:
case 08:
   $semester = "Summer";
   break;
case 09:
case 10:
case 11:
case 12:
   $semester = "Winter";
   break;
}

It works but I don't understand why a, if/else statement couldn't do the job.