PHP and Drop Down preselected

Anon

Is there a way to pre-select a value within a drop down box using "date" formats?

For example, I have a drop down box that has each month in it. Is there a way I can preselect the value based on the value of date("F").

I am having trouble working this in to the html drop down....

Appreciate any feedback....

Anon

Sure you can,

$date=date("F");
$months=array("JANUARY", .. , "DECEMBER");
echo "<SELECT name=month>";
for($i=0; $i<12; $i++)
{
if(strtoupper($date)==$months[$i])
echo "<option value=\"$months[$i]\" SELECTED>";
else
echo "<option value=\"$months[$i]\">";
}
echo "</SELECT>";

Anon

Isn't working, drop down gets created but is not populated with any values, let alone the default value of the == equation....

Can you test for me? Not sure what is wrong...it looks like it should work.

Greatly appreciate any feedback!!

Thanks.

Anon

Oh, yeah, I forgot...

$date=date("F");
$months=array("JANUARY", .. , "DECEMBER");
echo "<SELECT name=month>";
for($i=0; $i<12; $i++)
{
if(strtoupper($date)==$months[$i])
echo "<option value=\"$months[$i]\" SELECTED>$months[$i]</option>";
else
echo "<option value=\"$months[$i]\">$months[$i]</option>";
}
echo "</SELECT>";

That was a silly mistake...

It should work fine now,

Anon

This is a better version,

$date=strtoupper(date("F"));
$months=array("JANUARY", .. , "DECEMBER");
echo "<SELECT name=month>";
for($i=0; $i<12; $i++)
{
$sel=($date==$months[$i])?"selected":"";
echo "<option value=\"$months[$i]\" $sel>$months[$i]</option>";
}
echo "</SELECT>";

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For the sake of readability:

if ($date==$months[$i])
{
echo $sel = ' selected';
}
else
{
$sel = '';
}
echo '<option value="'.$months[$i].'"'.$sel.'>'.$months[$i].'</option>';

Anon

xaDASDASDASDASDASDA

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lol another person who doubts wether this forum actually works... 🙂

Anon

Excellent...very cool!!

I am going to try and use the same theroy to handle day and year.

Do you think it is possible to create a loop to assign the values to the array vs. typing each value out?

Thanks!

Anon

I thought he was making fun of me, because I missed </option> tags in the script.

Oh well...

Anon

If you are talking about days and years -> yes you can automate it by using date() function... (duh...)

But when it comes to months. I mean, c'mon, months are constants -> they don't change. Just type it up.

Anon

Gee...thanks for the uncanny insight. I hope your (duh) response was to combat the smart alec comment by previous posts....

I wouldn't let the "others" response make you feel you must do unto others as they have undone to your posts....

after all in my opionion your insight has been excellent.....

Anon

Well... thank you.