Display the month graphically

This is a useful little technique that you can put in your own scripts , the actual retrieving of the month itself is very straightforward but the interesting part is the graphics part which displays this as an actual image and this will be the first of many examples which will hopefully get the old creative juices going.

Code :

<?php
//our image directory
$images = "./images";
//store the month in $month
$month = date("m");
//generate our graphics
for($i=0; $i< strlen($month);$i++)
{
$imagesrc = $images ."/" . substr($month , $i , 1) . ".gif";
$imagehtml .= "<img src = \"$imagesrc\" border=\"0\">";
}
//display the graphical month
echo "$imagehtml";
?>

Example :