Print the months of the year to a drop down menu

ade234uk

How do I go about printing the days of the month to a drop down menu. I know how to print the dates 1-31 by using a for loop, how would I do this with month, January, Feburary, March etc....

<?
echo "<select name=\"numbers\">";
for ( $counter = 1; $counter <= 31; $counter ++)
{
echo "<option value=\"$counter\">$counter<br>";
}
echo "</select>";
?>

NogDog

<select name="month">
<?php
for($mon=1; $mon<=12; $mon++)
{
   echo "<option>".date('F',mktime(0,0,0,$mon,15,2006))."</option>\n";
}
?>
</select>

If you want to pass the numeric value to the form-handler, just add value='$mon' within the <option> tag.

ade234uk

Thats how you do it. Thank you very much for your help. I will keep this for later reference 🙂

NogDog

ade234uk wrote:
Thats how you do it. Thank you very much for your help. I will keep this for later reference 🙂

Actually, that's what I just thought up when I read your question. Usually I do it this way (which possibly might process a bit faster):

foreach(array(1=>'Januaray','February','March','April','May','June','July',
        'August','September','October','November','December') as $num => $name)
{
   echo "<option value='$num'>$name</option>\n";
}

But that's not as cool. 🙂

ade234uk

Im am not a programmer, but what I can do is put together a database driven website without any problems.

Im a copy and paste guy, but what I do try to do is understand the code when I am given it.

It's great that there is so much help and advice on this forum.

Weedpacket

Faster/simpler still:

?>
<option value="1">January</option>
<option value="2">February</option>
<option value="3">March</option>
<option value="4">April</option>
<option value="5">May</option>
<option value="6">June</option>
<option value="7">July</option>
<option value="8">August</option>
<option value="9">September</option>
<option value="10">October</option>
<option value="11">November</option>
<option value="12">December</option>
<?php

And leave making it more complicated until later, when the names of the months change.

NogDog

Weedpacket wrote:

Faster/simpler still:

?>
<option value="1">January</option>
<option value="2">February</option>
<option value="3">March</option>
<option value="4">April</option>
<option value="5">May</option>
<option value="6">June</option>
<option value="7">July</option>
<option value="8">August</option>
<option value="9">September</option>
<option value="10">October</option>
<option value="11">November</option>
<option value="12">December</option>
<?php

And leave making it more complicated until later, when the names of the months change.

I'm sorry, but I'm afraid you must turn in your keyboard and Mountain Dew. Your license to practice PHP is being immediately revoked.

😉