Date Question

[run2web]

I have a form that allows the user to enter in the date. Currently I am having them enter it YYYY-MM-DD. This seems confusing to them. I have been studying the strtotime function and I'm not sure if that is what I need.

What they want to be able to do is enter the date like this: mmddyyyy or mdy (could be entered mddyyyy or mmddyyyy or mmdyyyy)

Any ideas how to do this?

[no1uknowdfw]

you could explode() the date into $month $day & $year

Do you want the date in a pull down menu?
If so I can send you a function that will make this quick and simple...

[no1uknowdfw]

I'm not going to be at my computer much longer... Lightning storm in Dallas, Tx... Whoa!

Here's a piece of code that will make your dates simple...

function listbox_day ($name, $default=0) {
$result="<select name=\"$name\" size=1 class=\"formpulldown\">\n";
for ($dayf=1;$dayf<=31;$dayf++) {
if ($default == $dayf) {$selected="selected";} else {$selected="";}
$result.="<option value=\"".date(d, mktime(0,0,0,0,$dayf,2000))."\" $selected>".date(j, mktime(0,0,0,0,$dayf,2000))."</option>\n";
}
$result.="</select>\n";
return $result;
}

function listbox_month ($name, $default=0) {
$result="<select name=\"$name\" size=1 class=\"formpulldown\">\n";
for ($monthf=1;$monthf<=12;$monthf++) {
if ($default == $monthf) {$selected="selected";} else {$selected="";}
$result.="<option value=\"".date(m, mktime(0,0,0,$monthf,1,2000))."\" $selected>".date(M, mktime(0,0,0,$monthf,1,2000))."</option>\n";
}
$result.="</select>\n";
return $result;
}

function listbox_year ($name, $start, $end, $default=0) {
$result="<select name=\"$name\" size=1 class=\"formpulldown\">\n";
for ($yearf=$end;$yearf>=$start;$yearf--) {
if ($default == $yearf) {$selected="selected";} else {$selected="";}
$result.="<option value=\"$yearf\" $selected>$yearf</option>\n";
}
$result.="</select>\n";
return $result;
}

function listbox_hour ($name, $default=0) {
$result="<select name=\"$name\" size=1 class=\"formpulldown\">\n";
for ($hourf=1;$hourf<=12;$hourf++) {
if ($default == $hourf) {$selected="selected";} else {$selected="";}
$result.="<option value=\"".date(h, mktime($hourf,0,0,0,0,2000))."\" $selected>".date(g, mktime($hourf,0,0,0,0,2000))."</option>\n";
}
$result.="</select>\n";
return $result;
}

function listbox_min ($name, $default=0) {
$result="<select name=\"$name\" size=1 class=\"formpulldown\">\n";
for ($minf=00;$minf<=59;$minf++) {
if ($default == $minf) {$selected="selected";} else {$selected="";}
$result.="<option value=\"".date(i, mktime(0,$minf,0,0,0,2000))."\" $selected>".date(i, mktime(0,$minf,0,0,0,2000))."</option>\n";
}
$result.="</select>\n";
return $result;
}

// to make these funtions work use these echos...
// have fun modifying them...

<? echo listbox_month("month", 7); ?> /
<? echo listbox_day("day",23); ?> /
<? echo listbox_year("year", 1994, 2003, 2001); ?>,&nbsp;
<? echo listbox_hour("hour", 12); ?>:
<? echo listbox_min("min", 00); ?>
);
<br>
<? echo listbox_month("month2", 1); ?> /
<? echo listbox_day("day2", 2); ?> /
<? echo listbox_year("year2", 1994, 2003, 2002); ?>,&nbsp;
<? echo listbox_hour("hour2", 11); ?>:
<? echo listbox_min("min2", 59); ?>

[run2web]

Do you want the date in a pull down menu?
If so I can send you a function that will make this quick and simple...

A pull down menu would be fine as long as when the page is posted to the db it gets sent as date() would send it. Also, the year could date back as far as the early 1800's. This is for a cemetery site. What if the Month and Day were in a dropdown box and the Year could be entered manually, is that a possibility?

[no1uknowdfw]

no problem....

use the functions on my last post, you can even put them in an include file....

Basically you want to pull the date from the db and explode()
see the manual

then use

echo listbox_month("month", 7);

The name of the pull down is month
The selected date is 7

or you could do

echo listbox_month("month",$day);

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so if your date comes back as YYYY-MM-DD

$datex = explode("-", $date);
$year = $datex[0];
$month = $datex[1];
$day = $datex[2];

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to put it all back together

$date = $year."-".$month."-".$day;

[run2web]

Thank you!!!!! 😃