Need help with code

[Dang]

My php script generates the wrong html <option> values in my form. As you can see it has a slight variable problem and I get the same result with global variables on or off. I am VERY NEW so be gentle.
Any ideas would be great...
See the php and html below...

Thank you!

My PHP script:

<?PHP 

$months = array(1 => 'January', 'February', 'March', 'April',
	'May', 'June', 'July', 'August', 'September',
	'October', 'November', 'December');
$days = range(1, 31);
$years = range(2003, 2010);

echo '<form action = "calendar.php" method = "post">';	

echo '<select name = "month">';
	foreach ($months as $key => $value) {
echo '<option value =\"$key\">$value</option>';
}
echo '</select>';

echo '<select name = "day">';
	foreach ($days as $value) {
echo '<option value =\"$value\">$value</option>';
}
echo '</select>';




echo '</form>';



?>

My HTML php generated source code:

<form action = "calendar.php" method = "post"><select name = "month"><option value =\"$key\">$value</option><option value =\"$key\">$value</option><option value =\"$key\">$value</option><option value =\"$key\">$value</option><option value =\"$key\">$value</option><option value =\"$key\">$value</option><option value =\"$key\">$value</option><option value =\"$key\">$value</option><option value =\"$key\">$value</option><option value =\"$key\">$value</option><option value =\"$key\">$value</option><option value =\"$key\">$value</option></select><select name = "day"><option value =\"$value\">$value</option><option value =\"$value\">$value</option><option value =\"$value\">$value</option><option value =\"$value\">$value</option><option value =\"$value\">$value</option><option value =\"$value\">$value</option><option value =\"$value\">$value</option><option value =\"$value\">$value</option><option value =\"$value\">$value</option><option value =\"$value\">$value</option><option value =\"$value\">$value</option><option value =\"$value\">$value</option><option value =\"$value\">$value</option><option value =\"$value\">$value</option><option value =\"$value\">$value</option><option value =\"$value\">$value</option><option value =\"$value\">$value</option><option value =\"$value\">$value</option><option value =\"$value\">$value</option><option value =\"$value\">$value</option><option value =\"$value\">$value</option><option value =\"$value\">$value</option><option value =\"$value\">$value</option><option value =\"$value\">$value</option><option value =\"$value\">$value</option><option value =\"$value\">$value</option><option value =\"$value\">$value</option><option value =\"$value\">$value</option><option value =\"$value\">$value</option><option value =\"$value\">$value</option><option value =\"$value\">$value</option></select></form>

[thorpe]

Cool.

[Dang]

I got to wondering if it might be that I need to make my php variables global themselves. But not sure of both sytax and if I have to do it on all instances of the variable?

By the way sorry for the HTML source format, but I'm learning, I think I should have put some \n's in there.

Thanks!

[thorpe]

The problem is simply that php is not parsed between single quotes. Try....

echo '<form action="calendar.php" method="post">';	
echo '  <select name="month">';
foreach ($months as $key => $value) {
  echo "    <option value =\"$key\">$value</option>";
}
echo '  </select>';
echo '  <select name="day">';
foreach ($days as $value) {
  echo "    <option value =\"$value\">$value</option>";
}
echo '  </select>';
echo '</form>';

[Dang]

You are correct (of course).
Thank you so much...it's on to the next chapter of my book and of course a review of quotation marks in a previous chapter.

again thank you!