[RESOLVED] Dynamic Display of Date in Drop Down Menu

[devil_vin]

Hi,guys! I have a drop down menu and would like to set its options dynamically to have the three future dates from current date.How could I achieve it in PHP?Or maybe other languages?The date format is shown in the code.Thanks....

<tr> 
                  <td width="21%"><font face="Arial"> 
                    <label>Date:</label>
                    &nbsp;</font></td>
                  <td width="79%"><font face="Arial"> 
                    <select name="rDate" id="select3">
                      <option selected> Select</option>
                      <option>Sat 15th Sept</option>
                      <option>Sun 16th Sept</option>
                      <option>Mon 17th Sept</option>
                    </select>
                    </font></td>
                </tr>

[Rodney_H_]

I am not 100% sure of what you are asking, but maybe something like this will give you an idea...

// hmmm...
<form action="" method="">
<select name="rDate">
<?php

$dateToMatch = 'Sat 22nd Sep';

for($i = 0; $i < 31; $i++)
{
	if(date('M', strtotime('+' . $i . ' day')) == date('M'))
	{
		echo '<option value="' . date('D jS M', strtotime('+' . $i . ' day')) . '"';

	if(date('D jS M', strtotime('+' . $i . ' day')) == $dateToMatch)
	{
		echo ' selected="selected"';
	}

	echo '>' .  date('D jS M', strtotime('+' . $i . ' day')) . '</option>' . "\n";
}
}
?>
</select>
</form>

[devil_vin]

I am not going to have any fixed date,all should be dynamically display...

[NogDog]

<select name="rDate" id="select3">
<?php
$today= time();
for($i = 1; $i <= 3; $i++)
{
   $date = strtotime("+i day", $today);
   printf("<option value='%s'>%s</option>\n", date('Y-m-d', $date), date('D jS M', $date));
}
?>
</select>

I'm assuming it would be more useful to have the select element actually return a 'yyyy-mm-dd' value, but if you really just want the "Day date Month" format, just remove the "value='%s' from the printf() format string along with the 2nd parameter to it.

[devil_vin]

how about if want to insert a selected date to a session? since it may have further processing.

[devil_vin]

Can session be established with the following script?

  <select name="rDate" id="select3">
   <option selected> Select</option>
   <?php for($iIndex = 1; $iIndex <= 3; $iIndex++): ?>
    <option><?php echo date('D d\t\h M', strtotime('+' . $iIndex . ' days')); ?></   option>
    <?php $_SESSION['seleted'] = date($iIndex);?>
    <?php endfor; ?>
   </select>

[devil_vin]

Problem resolved..Thanks...🙂

  <select name="rDate" id="select3">
 <option selected> Select</option>


 <?php for($i = 1; $i <= 3; $i++){
 $_SESSION['selected'][$i] = date('D d\t\h M',  strtotime('+' . $i . ' days'));
  echo '<option>'.$_SESSION['selected'][$i].'</option>';
}
  ?>
 </select>