help with if else

[mulaus]

month value is January

and monthYear value in db is January 09


how do i make the if else to ignore the 09 to make the condition above to be true

  if($month== $monthYear) {
     echo "True";
  } else {
     echo "False";
  }
} 

is this possible?

[forum_amnesiac]

Try this

$monthlength=strlen(trim($month));

if(strtoupper(trim($month))== substr(strtoupper(trim($monthYear)),0,$monthlength)) { 
     echo "True"; 
  } else { 
     echo "False"; 
  } 
} 

I have used strtoupper() to ensure that 'January' would match with 'JANUARY'

[mulaus]

thanks...awesome...you rock..it works