Dynamic Drop-down Menu

cchiffers

Hello,

Im trying to create a dynmic dropdown menu for use on a scheduling system and im wondering the best way to go about it.

Example:

<select name="select">
  <option selected>- Select Day -</option>
  <option>Sunday, 18th Sep</option>
  <option>Monday, 19th Sep</option>
  <option>Tuesday, 20th Sep</option>
  <option>Wednesday, 21st Sep</option>
  <option>Thursday, 22nd Sep - Today</option>
  <option>Friday, 23rd Sep</option>
  <option>Saturday, 24th Sep</option>
  <option>- Next Week -</option>
  <option>Sunday, 25th Sep</option>
  <option>Monday, 26th Sep</option>
  <option>Tuesday, 27th Sep</option>
  <option>Wednesday, 28th Sep</option>
  <option>Thursday, 29th Sep</option>
  <option>Friday, 30th Sep</option>
  <option>Saturday, 1st Oct</option>
</select>

Now, obviously the dates would need to be dynamic, and update themselves.

I have already got todays date, and set the timezone for GMT:

$date = date('Y-m-d H:i:s', time() + 28800);

But now im clueless as to how I would dynamically create the dropdown menu.

Im looking into using arrays, such as:

$month_names = array(
                1 => _('January'),
                _('February'),
                _('March'),
                _('April'),
                _('May'),
                _('June'),
                _('July'),
                _('August'),
                _('September'),
                _('October'),
                _('November'),
                _('December'),
                );

$day_names = array(
                _('Sunday'),
		_('Monday'),
		_('Tuesday'),
		_('Wednesday'),
		_('Thursday'),
		_('Friday'),
		_('Saturday'),
                );
?>

But Im not sure what to do with the arrays or how to use them.

Any help is greatly welcome

Thanks

devinemke

a simple example:

<?php
$time = time();
$time_plus2 = strtotime('+ 2 weeks');

echo '<select name="select">';
while ($time <= $time_plus2)
{
	echo '<option>' . date('l, F d', $time) . '</option>';
	$time = strtotime(date('Y-m-d', $time) . ' + 1 day');
}
echo '</select>';
?>

paulnaj

And here's a variation ...

<select>
<?php
for($i = 0; $i < 14; $i++){
	echo '<option>'.date('l, dS M', strtotime("+".$i." day")).'</option>';
}
?> 
</select>

Paul 🙂

cchiffers

Thanks for the SUPER fast reply!

Ok, so I checked them both out, and they both seem pretty good! thanks guys!

Question is now:

How do I make it so that it prints the days before todays date up to the start of the week (sunday), and the days up to next satruday, so theres always 2 Saturdays

Example:

If today is Thursday 22nd September

Show This:

Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday <- Today
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday

Im guessing thats a bit more complicated 😕 lol.

Thanks!

devinemke

<?php
$time_minus = strtotime('last Sunday');
$time_plus = strtotime(date('Y-m-d', $time_minus) . ' + 13 days');

echo '<select name="select">';
while ($time_minus <= $time_plus)
{
    echo '<option>' . date('l, F d Y', $time_minus) . '</option>';
    $time_minus = strtotime(date('Y-m-d', $time_minus) . ' + 1 day');		
}
echo '</select>';
?>

cchiffers

Great! thats Superb! thanks!

Now how would I go about highlighting todays date in the list?

Also, seeing as this list is going to be used to jump between the schedule days, is there anyway i can apply a link to each day? or maybe a value

devinemke

<?php
$time_minus = strtotime('last Sunday'); 
$time_plus = strtotime(date('Y-m-d', $time_minus) . ' + 13 days'); 

echo '<select name="select">'; 
while ($time_minus <= $time_plus) 
{ 
    $date = date('Y-m-d', $time_minus);		
		echo '<option';
		if ($date == date('Y-m-d')) {echo ' style="color:red" selected';}
		echo '>' . date('l, F d Y', $time_minus) . '</option>'; 
    $time_minus = strtotime($date . ' + 1 day');         

} 
echo '</select>';
?>

cchiffers

wow! that works perfecty!

Now link wise: how would I go about asigning each day a value such as

sunday = 1
tuesday = 2
wednesday = 3

etc etc ..

so that each day would link to that days schedule