HELP - dynamically populating a date

blueman

Hi all,

I have 2 drop down menus on a form: MONTH and YEAR

1) I need to select the Years from the dates colunm (00-00-0000) trimming day and month to have ONLY THE YEAR, and make the CURRENT YEAR as the INITIALLY SELECTED option on the drop down.

2) I have the month options listed as 01 to 12 (not dynamically filled this time). I need to make the CURRENT MONTH as the INITIALLY SELECTED option on the drop down.

Your help is TRULLY APPRECIATED!!!

thanks in advance,
Blueman

TheIceman5

do some research on "date" function of php.

blueman

I did many searches using several keywords, but nothing close to what I need... I always search before posting... thanx anyways

laserlight

After your search you probably found out how to generate the corresponding month/day.

Now, the question is selecting the correct option.

One way would be to simply re-write the option name and value, though then you'll end up with 2 options that are the same.

Another way would be to search the options until the correct option is found, then set it as selected.

osusano

im not sure if this is what you really want

to get the value of the current date on this format 00-00-0000 try this

$currentDate = date('m-d-Y');

you can either make use of substr to break it or just assign individual variable on each date function like this

$currentDay = date('d');
$currentMonth = date('m');
$currentYEar = date('Y');

and to select the current value from your drop down either u have to assign each value on a array to check the current date is equal to the value from array or just test it 1 by 1

timj

With the tips already posted, you should be able to just loop over all the years you find (I don't know which "column" you mean, I suppose somewhere in a database or something). For each value you find, you print an <OPTION> tag (with a certain value). If you encounter the current year, print an additional "SELECTED" at the end of the <OPTION> tag to make it initially selected.
like:
echo "<OPTION value=... ";
if(curYear)
{
echo "SELECTED";
}
echo "> option text </OPTION>";

Or something similar.