[SOLVED] best way to insert date on a form

[sanderphp]

I have a form where a user fills out the date when the event occurred.  Currently you have to type 2008/5/6 in the box everytime. I would like to simply it. 

 

Either I could probably just have them type in the month/day and concatenate it with the year or I could have the year filled in the already.   Ideally I would have one of this little popup calendars that so many sites have where you click on a date, but that is probably a stretch for me at this point. If you have other suggestions, I'm open to them. I've very new to php.

 

What do you guys suggest?

 

$date = $_POST['date'];
$eventdate = '2008'$date;

 

something like this?  I doubt that code is correct.

 

 

[conker87]

Why don't you use drop down fields? Then you can join them during posting.

[sanderphp]

Is there a way to have the drop down default to the current month and day on load or will it always default to 1 or null?

[conker87]

Add:

<select>

<option>blah</option>

<option>blah2</option>

<option selected>blah3</option>

</select>

[saint959]

hey, here is a quick fix for you. i think it should work, if not you can play around with the idea

 

Add:
<select>
<option value="January" <?php if (date('F') == "January"){ echo "selected";} ?>>January</option>
<option value="February" <?php if (date('F') == "February"){ echo "selected";} ?>>February</option>
<option value="March" <?php if (date('F') == "March"){ echo "selected";} ?>>March</option>
</select>

[sanderphp]

Ok, been trying to wrap my head around this. Here is how I'm using this code on the page. 

Don't I need something to get the current year, month, day and pass that as the default?

echo date('Y');

 

 

Here is what I have thus far:

 

  <label>dateyear
  <select name="dateyear" id="dateyear">
  
<option value="2008" <?php if (date('Y') == "2008"){ echo "selected";} ?>>2008</option>
<option value="2009" <?php if (date('Y') == "2009"){ echo "selected";} ?>>2009</option>
<option value="2010" <?php if (date('Y') == "2010"){ echo "selected";} ?>>2010</option>
</select>

  </label>
  
  <label>datemonth
  <select name="datemonth" id="datemonth">
  
<option value="January" <?php if (date('F') == "January"){ echo "selected";} ?>>January</option>
<option value="February" <?php if (date('F') == "February"){ echo "selected";} ?>>February</option>
<option value="March" <?php if (date('F') == "March"){ echo "selected";} ?>>March</option>
</select>

  </label>

 

 

 

[sanderphp]

anyone?

[realjumper]

What you have here is fine:

 

  <label>dateyear
  <select name="dateyear" id="dateyear">
  
<option value="2008" <?php if (date('Y') == "2008"){ echo "selected";} ?>>2008</option>
<option value="2009" <?php if (date('Y') == "2009"){ echo "selected";} ?>>2009</option>
<option value="2010" <?php if (date('Y') == "2010"){ echo "selected";} ?>>2010</option>
</select>

  </label>
  
  <label>datemonth
  <select name="datemonth" id="datemonth">
  
<option value="January" <?php if (date('F') == "January"){ echo "selected";} ?>>January</option>
<option value="February" <?php if (date('F') == "February"){ echo "selected";} ?>>February</option>
<option value="March" <?php if (date('F') == "March"){ echo "selected";} ?>>March</option>
</select>

  </label>

 

You are 'getting' the current year and month in your example, it works. Just extend the months a little to get this month.....try it and see.

 

<label>dateyear
  <select name="dateyear" id="dateyear">
  
<option value="2008" <?php if (date('Y') == "2008"){ echo "selected";} ?>>2008</option>
<option value="2009" <?php if (date('Y') == "2009"){ echo "selected";} ?>>2009</option>
<option value="2010" <?php if (date('Y') == "2010"){ echo "selected";} ?>>2010</option>
</select>

  </label>
  
  <label>datemonth
  <select name="datemonth" id="datemonth">
  
<option value="January" <?php if (date('M') == "January"){ echo "selected";} ?>>January</option>
<option value="February" <?php if (date('M') == "February"){ echo "selected";} ?>>February</option>
<option value="March" <?php if (date('M') == "March"){ echo "selected";} ?>>March</option>
<option value="April" <?php if (date('M') == "April"){ echo "selected";} ?>>April</option>
<option value="May" <?php if (date('M') == "May"){ echo "selected";} ?>>May</option>
<option value="June" <?php if (date('M') == "June"){ echo "selected";} ?>>June</option>
</select>

 

  </label>

 

[sanderphp]

oh jeez. I had no idea it was that simple. Thought for sure I was missing something. Thanks

[sanderphp]

Is there a better way to list the days of the month? This seems like it will take a while to type in ...

 

<option value="1" <?php if (date('Y') == "1"){ echo "selected";} ?>>1</option>
<option value="2" <?php if (date('Y') == "2"){ echo "selected";} ?>>2</option>
<option value="3" <?php if (date('Y') == "3"){ echo "selected";} ?>>3</option>

[BlueSkyIS]

for loop

[realjumper]

Is there a better way to list the days of the month? This seems like it will take a while to type in ...

 

How about....

 

         <select name="date">
       <?php
          $date1 = date("j");
          echo "<option value=\"$date1\" selected=\"selected\">$date1</option>";
          $date = 1; 
          while ( $date <=31 ) 
          { 
          echo "<option value=\"$date\">$date</option>"; 
          $date++; 
          } 
         ?>
          </select>

[Mr. Despair]

How about....

 

         <select name="date">
       <?php
          $date1 = date("j");
          echo "<option value=\"$date1\" selected=\"selected\">$date1</option>";
          $date = 1; 
          while ( $date <=31 ) 
          { 
          echo "<option value=\"$date\">$date</option>"; 
          $date++; 
          } 
         ?>
          </select>

Hmm, I think you'd get two options with the value of the current day then. This could also work if you only want it to show once:

<?php
for ($x=1; $x<=31; $x++)
{
if (date('j') != $x)
{
	echo "<option value=\"$x\">$x</option>";
}
else
{
	echo "<option value=\"$x\" selected=\"selected\">$x</option>";
}

}
?>

[realjumper]

Yep...your way is probably better than mine...thanks

[ablueycolor]

or to shorten things up a bit (also, please indulge me in why the code formatting is automatically removing my backslashes around selected=\"selected\" upon posting):

 

<?php 
$day = date('j');
for ($x=1; $x<=31; $x++) { 
    echo "<option value=\"$x\" . (($day != $x) ? " selected=\"selected\"" : "") . ">$x</option>";
}
?>

[sanderphp]

Here is what I added but I'm getting a Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting ',' or ';' in: 

 

 

<label> Day 2
  <select name="dateday2" id="dateday2">
  <?php 
$day = date('j');
for ($x=1; $x<=31; $x++) { 
    echo "<option value=\"$x\" . (($day != $x) ? " selected="\selected\"" : "") . ">$x</option>";
}
?>

</label>  

[sanderphp]

any help on my parse error?

[sanderphp]

The parse error is on the echo line if I didn't make that clear on my previous post.

 

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting ',' or ';' in /home/sanderan/public_html/php/cycling/date.php on line 68

[revraz]

You need to fix your Quotes

[sanderphp]

Can you expand on that?

[revraz]

Sure can, you are using double quotes inside of double quotes so it's not giving you the results you want.

[Mr. Despair]

echo "<option value=\"$x\" . (($day != $x) ? " selected="\selected\"" : "") . ">$x</option>";

Hmm, there is no ending quote after your escaped quote... And after you placed the backslash before the quote after selected. So something like below should work. Also, I think it should be the equal operator instead of not equal.

 

echo "<option value=\"$x\"" . (($day == $x) ? " selected=\"selected\"" : "") . ">$x</option>";

[sanderphp]

perfect! Thanks