Date problem

shamil

Can someone please tell me how to create 2 drop down menus..
First one with the months and the second one with the date..actually i've already done this wiyh <option>january.....
But i want to know whether there is a way to make the date go up to 28 or 29 depending the year and 30 depending the months..
So that when i choose february in the list.;i can get only 28 in the second list...
Thanks in advance

PHPdev

you can use date("t", $some_timestamp) to determine the max number of dates in a month...

PHPdev

shamil

I' m new to php. i'd really appreciate if you could help me more by telling me more..plz

PHPdev

So are these dynamic dropdowns using JavaScript? or are you building them via PHP?

If you are building them via PHP, then all you need to do is use strtotime() which converts many different strings to a timestamp or to get the current timestamp you can use the time() function. Then the date() function has two parts, the first is a string of how to format the date, the second is the timestamp you want formated.

You can get a full description of each of these functions at www.php.net the search defaults to the functions list.

Let me know if you need more...

PHPdev

shamil

i'm doing a simple html thing ..like
<option>january
<option>february
<select>dsqfsdf<option>1..

PHPdev

Using HTML, my sugestion would be to put the months... Jan - Dec and Days 1 - 31, then once the form is submited check to make sure the date is valid.

You can use php function checkdate() for this.

Now if you dont want to type out all the days you can use a simple for loop to generate the options.

for ($x = 1; $x <= 31; $x++) {
echo "<option>$x</option>";
}

PHPdev

shamil

That's what i'm doing right now..
i waz just wandering if there waz another way of doing this..Without having to do the test afterwards because when the person would have chosen february..only 28 days would appear...
THks a lot..for your time

PHPdev

You can limit the second dropdown based on the first, but you have to use JavaScript... and personally I dont care for this method...

PHPdev

wizkid

Hi,

the JavaScript way may not be the safest way, but it probably is the best.
Have a look at the JavaScript here.

wizkid