[SOLVED] Months dropdown

[denhamd2]

Hi,

 

I'm looking to do a dropdown with the months in the year starting with this month and going on for 12 months, ie. the selected month is April 2007 and the last month is March 2008, does anyone know how to do this using PHP?

[obsidian]

Try this:

<?php
$out  = "<select name=\"month\">\n";
$out .= "<option value=\"\"></option>\n";

for ($i = 0; $i < 12; $i++) {
  $ts = mktime(0,0,0,(date('m') + $i),1);
  $month = date('m', $ts);
  $year  = date('Y', $ts);
  $out .= "<option value=\"$ts\">$month $year</option>\n";
}

$out .= "</select>\n";
?>

 

Untested, but the principle should be solid.

[denhamd2]

great thanks!

 

just wondering aswell, I have the month and year stored in a variable $thedate

 

so for example $thedate=042007

 

is there any way of splitting this up into 2 separate variables, $themonth and $theyear?

[obsidian]

You could use substr() to extract them:

<?php
$thedate = '042007';
$month = substr($thedate, 0, 2);
$year  = substr($thedate, -4);
?>

[denhamd2]

brilliant thanks! going with obsidian's code is there any way to have the current month selected?

[aebstract]

You could just run an if statement in your for statement, if the current matches up with the one that it is on, then set it, then run your else as the normal.

[denhamd2]

ok great thanks seemed to have worked it out

[obsidian]

Since you're always building your list from the current month on, just leave off the empty option, and the current month will always be selected by default.