date dropdowns

dast

I'm trying to create three dynamic date dropdowns, one for day one for month and one for year. I want these to populate themselves when no record variable has been passed to it but also want them to be able to accept a date variable.

i.e if no date has been passed it defaults to current date
and if date has been passed it defaults to that.

Any help would be great 🙂

The_Chancer

Somethign like

for ($i=1;$i<32;$i++)
{
    echo "<option value=$i ".if (date("d",$time())==$i){echo "selected";}.">$i</option>";
}

But that is only if you don't want the dates to be dynamic dependant on the month choice.

dast

Thanks, that will get me on my way 🙂

Catavitch

Let me see if i have your question correctly.

day:14 <---- auto picked by actual day
Month:6 <--- auto picked by actual month
Year:2003 <--- auto picked by year.

Why the drop down. do you want them to select other dates?
If so what you ask only requires you creating a option block within a for looping statement. Using exceptions for months with less than 31 days.

I will give you an example of the month.

echo "Month:<select>";
$month =date("n");

for($countmonth = 1; $countermonth <= 12; $countermonth++)
{

if($countermonth == "$month")
{
echo "<option selected value=$countermonth>$countermonth<br>";
}
else
{
echo "<option value=$countermonth>$countermonth<br>";
}
}
echo "</select>";

this shows the current month in the drop down and then gives an oiption to go up or down for month....

dast

Thanks for your reply.

I chose a dropdown for ease of use for the user. All i want is the three dropdowns (day, month & year) to default to the current date if I havent passed a date to it already.

So if i pass it a date all the dropdowns show that date, if not they default to the current date.

Catavitch


// In this part here if the date has been passed it will show as an option window still but the month set to what was passed if not it goes to the current date


echo "Month:<select>";


if($selectedmonth == "")
{
$month =date("n");
}
else
{
$month = "$selectedmonth";
}




for($countmonth = 1; $countermonth <= 12; $countermonth++)
{

if($countermonth == "$month")
{
echo "<option selected value=$countermonth>$countermonth<br>";
}
else
{
echo "<option value=$countermonth>$countermonth<br>";
}
}
echo "</select>";