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Thank you sir for your support, I really learned a lot from ur post, bye n take care.

Hello friends , I am develpoing a form to generate a report in a library about the books that are issued and within a particular time period this is a bit of html code i m using [code]            <form action="issued_books.php" method="POST">            <select name="year" id="year" >            <option>1998</option>            <option>1999</option>            <option>2000</option>            <option>2001</option>            <option>2002</option>            <option>2003</option>            <option>2004</option>            <option>2005</option>            <option>2006</option>            <option>2007</option>            </select>            <input type="text" name="month" size=2 maxlength="2" />            <input type="text" name="day" size=2 maxlength="2" />               <input type="submit" value="submit" name="submit" />            </form> [/code] in PHP handler there is a code [code]<?php       $year = $_POST['year'];       echo "$year";       $month = $_POST['month'];       echo "$month";       $day = $_POST['day'];       echo "$day"; ?>[/code] the output for the variable day which i am getting is 230 even when i have input the value 23 I am using EasyPHP in Windows XP second problem is how to use this date information to compare with the date value in a mysql table. Thanks for reading my problem and thanks in advance for the solutions. [b]EDIT BY OBER: PLEASE USE CODE TAGS WHEN POSTING CODE[/b]