Integer to Script with a Variable in a URL? - iphone

Question

I am sorry, as this question may have been asked before, but I could not find an answer that worked in my situation.
I am new to Objective-C, and I am not entirely knowledgable, so I apologize beforehand in the case that I seem like I am not amazing ;)
So, I have a webView, and everyday, the url changes. Ex: on April 30th the url is http://example.com/mylinkApr30
Using dates, I made a variable (sorry if my terminology is off :\ ), and the url ends in %d everything works just fine, except when it comes to month. The months are not in the typical MM form, they are in a shortened text, with the three first letters of the month name. Ex: Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr, etc.
I have the month integer working, and it writes as 1,2,3 etc.
How should I go about changing that to Jan, Feb, Mar?
Is there a different way I could go about this??
I can confirm the days are working, I have tested it with having 1 variable, and using Apr at the end of the link.
Here is my code, so it is easier for you to understand what I am asking.
- (void)viewDidLoad
{
[super viewDidLoad];
self.navigationItem.title = #"Balmoral";
NSCalendar *calendar= [[NSCalendar alloc] initWithCalendarIdentifier:NSGregorianCalendar];
NSCalendarUnit unitFlags = NSYearCalendarUnit | NSMonthCalendarUnit |
NSDayCalendarUnit | NSHourCalendarUnit | NSMinuteCalendarUnit |
NSSecondCalendarUnit;
NSDate *date = [NSDate date];
NSDateComponents *dateComponents = [calendar components:unitFlags fromDate:date];
//NSInteger year = [dateComponents year];
NSInteger month = [dateComponents month];
NSInteger day = [dateComponents day];
//NSInteger hour = [dateComponents hour];
//NSInteger minute = [dateComponents minute];
//NSInteger second = [dateComponents second];
NSString *baseURLStr = #"http://wwww.WebsiteHere.com/Apr";
NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString:[baseURLStr stringByAppendingFormat:#"%d.ashx", day]];
[webView loadRequest:[NSURLRequest requestWithURL:url]];
[NSCalendar release];
}

Answer 1

Check out the NSDateFormatter class, something like:
int month = 3;
NSDateFormatter *formatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
[formatter setDateFormat:#"MM"];
NSDate *date = [formatter dateFromString:[NSString stringWithFormat:#"%02i", month]];
[formatter setDateFormat:#"MMM"];
NSString *monthString = [formatter stringFromDate:date];
NSLog(#"MONTH STRING %#", monthString);
monthString should be "Mar"

Answer 2

A simple, and likely naive, approach would be to have an array with the text you want:
NSArray *months = [NSArray arrayWithObjects:#"Jan", #"Feb", nil];
This would allow you to get the string by:
NSString *monthString = [months objectAtIndex:month];

Answer 3

,Since you are not using the standard MM format you cannot use NSDateFormatter. You need a switch for all 12 months.
NSString * monthString = nil;
switch (month)
{
case 1:
monthString = #"Jan";
break;
case 2:
...
}
Then modify your own code:
NSString *baseURLStr = #"http://wwww.WebsiteHere.com/";
NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString:[baseURLStr stringByAppendingFormat:#"%#%d.ashx", monthString, day]];
EDIT:
Ryan is right. his solution is better.