[SOLVED] Date dropdown selected issue

[loquela]

Hi Guys

 

As you can see the code below displays a dropdwon datepicker.

For some reason that I can't figurre out the selected attribute on the MONTH field isn't working althou if I print $nowmonth I get the correct value.

 

DAY and YEAR work fine. can anyone see the problem?

 

Cheers

 

 

<?php 
$nowday = date("d");
$nowmonth = date("m");
$nowyear = date("Y");
?>
<select name="arriveday" >

//************* FOLLOWING SELECT ATTRIBUTE GETS INSERTED CORRECTLY **********

<option value=01 <?php if ($nowday == 01) { echo"selected='selected'"; } ?>>01</option>
<option value=02 <?php if ($nowday == 02) { echo"selected='selected'"; } ?>>02</option>
<option value=03 <?php if ($nowday == 03) { echo"selected='selected'"; } ?>>03</option>
<option value=04 <?php if ($nowday == 04) { echo"selected='selected'"; } ?>>04</option>
<option value=05 <?php if ($nowday == 05) { echo"selected='selected'"; } ?>>05</option>
<option value=06 <?php if ($nowday == 07) { echo"selected='selected'"; } ?>>06</option>
<option value=07 <?php if ($nowday == 07) { echo"selected='selected'"; } ?>>07</option>
<option value=08 <?php if ($nowday == 08) { echo"selected='selected'"; } ?>>08</option>
<option value=09 <?php if ($nowday == 09) { echo"selected='selected'"; } ?>>09</option>
<option value=10 <?php if ($nowday == 10) { echo"selected='selected'"; } ?>>10</option>
<option value=11 <?php if ($nowday == 11) { echo"selected='selected'"; } ?>>11</option>
<option value=12 <?php if ($nowday == 12) { echo"selected='selected'"; } ?>>12</option>
<option value=13 <?php if ($nowday == 13) { echo"selected='selected'"; } ?>>13</option>
<option value=14 <?php if ($nowday == 14) { echo"selected='selected'"; } ?>>14</option>
<option value=15 <?php if ($nowday == 15) { echo"selected='selected'"; } ?>>15</option>
<option value=16 <?php if ($nowday == 16) { echo"selected='selected'"; } ?>>16</option>
<option value=17 <?php if ($nowday == 17) { echo"selected='selected'"; } ?>>17</option>
<option value=18 <?php if ($nowday == 18) { echo"selected='selected'"; } ?>>18</option>
<option value=19 <?php if ($nowday == 19) { echo"selected='selected'"; } ?>>19</option>
<option value=20 <?php if ($nowday == 20) { echo"selected='selected'"; } ?>>20</option>
<option value=21 <?php if ($nowday == 21) { echo"selected='selected'"; } ?>>21</option>
<option value=22 <?php if ($nowday == 22) { echo"selected='selected'"; } ?>>22</option>
<option value=23 <?php if ($nowday == 23) { echo"selected='selected'"; } ?>>23</option>
<option value=24 <?php if ($nowday == 24) { echo"selected='selected'"; } ?>>24</option>
<option value=25 <?php if ($nowday == 25) { echo"selected='selected'"; } ?>>25</option>
<option value=26 <?php if ($nowday == 26) { echo"selected='selected'"; } ?>>26</option>
<option value=27 <?php if ($nowday == 27) { echo"selected='selected'"; } ?>>27</option>
<option value=28 <?php if ($nowday == 28) { echo"selected='selected'"; } ?>>28</option>
<option value=29 <?php if ($nowday == 29) { echo"selected='selected'"; } ?>>29</option>
<option value=30 <?php if ($nowday == 30) { echo"selected='selected'"; } ?>>30</option>
<option value=31 <?php if ($nowday == 31) { echo"selected='selected'"; } ?>>31</option>
</select>

//************* FOLLOWING SELECT ATTRIBUTE DOESN'T GET INSERTED **********

<select name="arrivemonth">
<option value=01 <?php if ($nowmonth == 01) { echo"selected='selected'"; } ?>>January</option>

<option value=02 <?php if ($nowmonth == 02) { echo"selected='selected'"; } ?>>February</option>
<option value=03 <?php if ($nowmonth == 03) { echo"selected='selected'"; } ?>>March</option>
<option value=04 <?php if ($nowmonth == 04) { echo"selected='selected'"; } ?>>April</option>
<option value=05 <?php if ($nowmonth == 05) { echo"selected='selected'"; } ?>>May</option>
<option value=06 <?php if ($nowmonth == 06) { echo"selected='selected'"; } ?>>June</option>
<option value=07 <?php if ($nowmonth == 07) { echo"selected='selected'"; } ?>>July</option>

<option value=08 <?php if ($nowmonth == 08) { echo"selected='selected'"; } ?>>August</option>
<option value=09 <?php if ($nowmonth == 09) { echo"selected='selected'"; } ?>>September</option>
<option value=10 <?php if ($nowmonth == 10) { echo"selected='selected'"; } ?>>October</option>
<option value=11 <?php if ($nowmonth == 11) { echo"selected='selected'"; } ?>>November</option>
<option value=12 <?php if ($nowmonth == 12) { echo"selected='selected'"; } ?>>December</option>
</select>

//************* FOLLOWING SELECT ATTRIBUTE GETS INSERTED CORRECTLY **********
<select name="arriveyear">
<option value=2009 <?php if ($nowyear == 2009) { echo"selected='selected'"; } ?>>2009</option>
<option value=2010 <?php if ($nowyear == 2010) { echo"selected='selected'"; } ?>>2010</option>
</select>

[JonnoTheDev]

You can easily cut out all that unnecessary duplicate code with a loop.

<select name="arriveday">
<?php
for($x = 1; $x <= 31; $x++) {
$dayNum = str_pad($x, 2, "0", STR_PAD_LEFT); 
print "<option value='".$dayNum."'".((date("d") == $dayNum) ? " selected" : false).">".$dayNum."</option>\n";
}
?>
</select>

[loquela]

Hi thanks for that.

But any ideas why the select attribute on the month field is not working?

[JonnoTheDev]

Because your HTML is bad. Enclose values in quotes. Also 01,02, etc is not an integer in php.

<option value=01 <?php if ($nowday == 01) { echo"selected='selected'"; } ?>>01</option>

Corrected

<option value="01" <?php if ($nowday == "01") { echo "selected"; } ?>>01</option>

 

Please use a loop. Writing it out like that looks awful.

[avvllvva]

Check the IF condition,

Put 08 in quotes, bcoz date function returns string, so you have to change the comparison with quotes from the whole script.

$nowmonth == '08'

[loquela]

Thanks avvllvva, you had the answer. I was confused though 'cos the day and the year work fine...

[JonnoTheDev]

Thanks avvllvva, you had the answer

[thebadbad]

As Neil correctly pointed out, an integer with a leading zero is treated as an octal, hence your problems. Also, 09 isn't a valid octal.

[avvllvva]

yes guys... here we are actually comparing strings... not integers.. not octals