Can someone please help with this date code

Attila7

I have a php/html request form. This form has blanks to fill in start and end dates. I want the dates to be limited to 90 days for start and 95 days for end. I found a nice add on by K Brill in the code library that looks like what I need however I have not been able to get it to work or look right. This is the form I am presently using and it works well but has no date limit:

<?php 
$date = date("y/m/d h:m:s A"); 
if(isset($Submit)) 
{ 
if($name != "" && $email != "") 
{ 
$message = "LOA Request<br><br> 

Name: $name<br>   

Email: $email<br> 

Start Date: $startdate &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Time: $starttime<br> 
End Date: $enddate &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Time: $endtime<br><br>

Sent: $date<br><br>

Reason For ALOA Request: $reason<br><br><br>

ALOA Request Granted:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br><br> 

Comments:&nbsp;&nbsp;"; 

$headers = "Content-Type: text/html\n"; 
$headers .= "From: $email\n"; 

mail("attila@shaw.ca,$email","LOA Request",$message,$headers);

header("Location: loaresp.htm"); 
} 
else 
{ 
$error = "y"; 
} 
} 
?>
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<title>LOA Request</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/BLE_510.css">
<meta name="Description" content="LOA Request">
<meta name="Author" content="Attila">
</head>
<body>
<h2>&nbsp;&nbsp;Leave Of Absence Request</h2>
<?php
if($error == "y")
{
echo "<h2>You must fill in your Name and Email.</h2>";exit;
}
?>
<form name="loa.php" action="loa.php" method="post">
  <table  width="460" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="15">
    <tr>
      <td width="80">*Name</td>
      <td width="130"><input type="text" name="name" size="20"></td>
      <td>*Email</td>
      <td><input type="text" name="email" size="20"></td>
    </tr>
  </table><br>
  <table  width="460" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
     <tr>
      <td width="120">&nbsp;&nbsp;Start Date</td>
      <td width="100"><input type="text" value="yy/mm/dd" name="startdate" size="18"></td>
      <td width="60">&nbsp;Time</td>
      <td width="40"><input type="text" name="starttime" size="8"></td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td colspan="4">&nbsp;</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>&nbsp;&nbsp;End Date</td>
      <td><input type="text" value="yy/mm/dd" name="enddate" size="18"></td>
      <td>&nbsp;Time</td>
      <td><input type="text" name="endtime" size="8"></td>
    </tr>
  </table><br>
  <table  width="440" border="0" cellpadding="30" cellspacing="0">
	<tr>
      <td><div align="left"><input type="submit" value="Submit" name="Submit" class="button"></div></td>
      <td><div align="left"><input type="reset" name="Reset" value="Reset" class="button"></div></td>
	</tr>	
  </table>
</form>
</body>
</html>

Can someone please show me how I can get the dater integrated into the form? Thanks.

dfr574

I'm not sure I understand exactly what you are trying to do, but I think this might work for you.

Use a select.

	print "<td align=\"center\"><select name=\"start_date\">\n";
for($n = 1; $n < 90; $n++){
	print "<option value=\"$start\">$start</option>\n";
	$start = date("Y"."-"."m"."-"."d",strtotime("-$n days")); 	
}
	print "</select>\n";

Attila7

Thanks dfr574 bt what I need it to do is give the option to select 1 of the next 90 days in the Start an End Date fields. Once the fields are filled in they should print the value that is entered when the form is submitted. Currently the date boxes are filled in manually, I need a limit on these dates, the code that K Brill designed is supposed to do that however I don't know enuff to incorperate it into my form?

Here is the link to Ken's snippet, I want my date fields to do exactly what the example does. http://www.multi.com/Coding/PHPDateDropDown.php

Rodney_H_

<?php
/* This works for me, and is pretty simple to implement: */
?>
<form>
<select name="startdate">
<option selected="selected">Please Choose One:</option>
<?php
// start at zero
$counter = 0;
// go to 90+ days
while($counter <= 90){
	$day = '+' . $counter . 'day';
	$date = strtotime($day);
	echo '<option value="' .date('y/m/d', $date). '">' .date('y/m/d', $date). '</option>' . "\n";
	$counter++;
}
?>
</select> Start Date (yy/mm/dd)
<br />
<select name="enddate">
<option selected="selected">Please Choose One:</option>
<?php
// start at zero
$counter = 0;
// go to 95+ days
while($counter <= 95){
	$day = '+' . $counter . 'day';
	$date = strtotime($day);
	echo '<option value="' .date('y/m/d', $date). '">' .date('y/m/d', $date). '</option>' . "\n";
	$counter++;
}
?>
</select> End Date (yy/mm/dd)
</form>

Attila7

Looks good RodneyH. 90 day start and 95 day end, perfect! How do I incorperate it into the existing form? Sorry for the dumb questions bit I am a real newbie, still trying to muddle my way thru html, php is a real mystery. What I have working so far is the result of generous assistance from far more knowledgable people and a lot of trial and error, mostly error!

Rodney_H_

Attila, it is nice that people are willing to help. I am one willing to help, too. But I would be remiss if I did not encourage you to try and place the code into your form yourself. Try something. Does it work? No? Try something else. You can do this. If not, post back what you have tried, and what errors you recieved. OK?

Attila7

Sure, no problem, I'll give it a go. Thanks for you support and encouragement!

Rodney_H_

Cool!

tony_l

Good point Rodney H, as an added note, I will say this: Go out and buy a good book on PHP. Within a week, you will absolutely be amazed at what you are able to do. I suggest the PHP Bible as a starting point. I also caution you on using code snippets you find on the net...It is always better to code it yourself. Reason - you can break their code easily AND you did not learn anything from using someone elses code off the internet. Of course advice given here is excluded from this, but I just wanted to steer you in the right direction. Good Luck!

Attila7

I'm making progress! 🙂
How do I add in the day of the week to the selection box?
Example: 05/10/28 Friday
There must be a standard set of commands listed somewhere?
I've tried searching date commands, etc, nothing?

Attila7

I'm making progress! This works the way I want it to, many thanks Rodney H.!
Can the php part be included in a table in order to maintain the lines and spacing?

<form name="loa.php" action="loa.php" method="post">
  <table  width="460" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="15">
    <tr>
      <td width="80">*Name</td>
      <td width="130"><input type="text" name="name" size="20"></td>
      <td>*Email</td>
      <td><input type="text" name="email" size="20"></td>
    </tr>
  </table><br>
<?php
?>
Start Date&nbsp;&nbsp;<select name="startdate"> 
<option selected="selected">Choose One:</option> 
<?php 
// start at zero 
$counter = 0; 
// go to 90+ days 
while($counter <= 90){ 
    $day = '+' . $counter . 'day'; 
    $date = strtotime($day); 
    echo '<option value="' .date('y/m/d  D M d',$theday, $date). '">' .date('y/m/d  D M d',$theday, $date). '</option>' . "\n"; 
    $counter++; 
} 
?> 
</select> 
 &nbsp;Time&nbsp;&nbsp;<input type="text" name="starttime" size="8">	
<br><br> 
End Date&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<select name="enddate"> 
<option selected="selected">Choose One:</option> 
<?php 
// start at zero 
$counter = 0; 
// go to 95+ days 
while($counter <= 95){ 
    $day = '+' . $counter . 'day'; 
    $date = strtotime($day); 
    echo '<option value="' .date('y/m/d  D M d', $date). '">' .date('y/m/d  D M d', $date). '</option>' . "\n"; 
    $counter++; 
} 
?> 
</select>
&nbsp;Time&nbsp;&nbsp;<input type="text" name="endtime" size="8"> 
  <table  width="440" border="0" cellpadding="30" cellspacing="0">
	<tr>
      <td><div align="left"><input type="submit" value="Submit" name="Submit" class="button"></div></td>
      <td><div align="left"><input type="reset" name="Reset" value="Reset" class="button"></div></td>
	</tr>	
  </table>
</form>

Rodney_H_

Good, I am glad you are making progress. To answer your question, yes. PHP code can and is most often inter-spersed within regular HTML code.

<?php  /* So, you can have something like this: */  ?>

<p>Hello, <?php echo $name; ?>.</p>
<p>You have <strong><?php echo $numMessages; ?></strong> new messages.</p>
<p>Click <a href="view.php?id=<?php echo $id; ?>">here to view</a> them.</p>

<?php  /* So, for a table, you can have:  */  ?>

<form name="myForm" action="process.php" method="POST">
  <table  width="500" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
    <tr>
      <td>Name</td>
      <td><input type="text" name="name" size="50" /></td>
    </tr>
      <td>Email</td>
      <td><input type="text" name="email" size="50" /></td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>START Date</td>
      <td><?php /* PHP code here */ ?></td>
    </tr>	  

      <td>END Date</td>
      <td><?php echo 'the info you need to output via PHP here!'; ?></td>
    </tr>
	<tr>
	  <td>&nbsp;</td>	
      <td><input type="submit" value="submit" name="Submit" /></td>
    </tr> 
  </table>
</form>

Hope that helps!!

Attila7

That kinda worked? The lines and spacing are maintained nicely, everything looks good but I lost the date drop down? I've tried moving things around but no joy, what did I miss?

<table  width="460" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
     <tr>
      <td width="120">&nbsp;&nbsp;Start Date</td>
      <td width="100"><select name="startdate"><option selected="selected">Choose One</option> 
<?php
$counter = 0;
while($counter <= 90){ 
    $day = '+' . $counter . 'day'; 
    $date = strtotime($day); 
    echo '<option value="' .date('y/m/d',$theday, $date). '">' .date('y/m/d',$theday, $date). '</option>' . "\n"; 
    $counter++; 
} 
?> 
</select> </td>
      <td width="60">&nbsp;Time</td>
      <td width="40"><input type="text" name="starttime" size="8"></td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td colspan="4">&nbsp;</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>&nbsp;&nbsp;End Date</td>
      <td><select name="enddate"><option selected="selected">Choose One</option> 
<?php
$counter = 0;
while($counter <= 95){ 
    $day = '+' . $counter . 'day'; 
    $date = strtotime($day); 
    echo '<option value="' .date('y/m/d',$theday, $date). '">' .date('y/m/d',$theday, $date). '</option>' . "\n"; 
    $counter++; 
} 
?> 
</select> </td>
      <td>&nbsp;Time</td>
      <td><input type="text" name="endtime" size="8"></td>
    </tr>
  </table><br>

Rodney_H_

Well, you changed the code. Take a closer look here, for example:

/ MY code /
echo '<option value="' .date('y/m/d', $date). '">' .date('y/m/d', $date). '</option>' . "\n";

/ YOUR code /
echo '<option value="' .date('y/m/d',$theday, $date). '">' .date('y/m/d',$theday, $date). '</option>' . "\n";

Attila7

OOPS! Sorry master, I grabbed an earlier trial by mistake. I was trying to change the entry and tried a few differant ways before I found the date standards. I have changed it to .date('y/m/d D M d', $date) and everything works perfectly! Thanks again for you help.

Rodney_H_

errr... glad you figured it out, and errrrrr... sorry if I conked you over the head with that... :bemused:

Attila7

LOL, not a problem! Sometimes I need a little "attention adjustment"? :o
You have been most patient and helpful, thanks again Rodney H..