[SOLVED] Drop down list of months

[sotusotusotu]

Hello,

 

I am trying to create a drop down list with 12 months as the contents. I need to be able to determine what the latest month is and then put the 11 months before into it (in the correct order). For example, it is September 2007 obviously at the moment, so that will need to be the last and latest month in the list. The other 11 will be in reverse order going back to August 2006.

 

I am a newbie at PHP so could give me any ideas please?

 

Thanks

[GingerRobot]

How about:

 

<?php
echo '<select name="month">';
for($x=0;$x<12;$x++){
$time = strtotime("$x months ago");
$month = date('F Y',$time);
echo '<option value="'.$x.'">'.$month.'</month>';
}
echo '</select>';
?>

[sotusotusotu]

Thanks a lot mate.  That displays exactly how I want it to. 

 

Just one more thing I need the list to link to pages. For example, September 2007 needs to link to "?month=sep2007" all the way down to "?month=oct2007".

 

Can this be achieved with that code?

 

 

[GingerRobot]

Well, if you changed the value of the option to:

 

<?php
echo '<select name="month">';
for($x=0;$x<12;$x++){
$time = strtotime("$x months ago");
$month = date('F Y',$time);
$link = date('MY',$time);
echo '<option value="'.$link.'">'.$month.'</month>';
}
echo '</select>';
?>

 

And submitted the form with GET then yes, it would work.

[cooldude832]

Or since get doesn't need to validate with refer just make it hyper links if that is your goal.

echo "<a href=\"page.php?month=sept07\">September 07</a>";

 

[sotusotusotu]

Thanks guys. I tried it in a GET form but the month doesn't seem to change in the url. The month is always sept2007.

 

<form method="get" action="">
	<p>
			<?php
echo '<select name="month">';
for($x=0;$x<12;$x++){
$time = strtotime("$x months ago");
$month = date('F Y',$time);
$link = date('MY');
echo '<option value="'.$link.'">'.$month.'</month>';
}
echo '</select>';
?>
</p>
	<p>
			<label>
			<input type="submit" value="Submit" />
			</label>
</p>
</form>

 

Any ideas?

[GingerRobot]

You made a little mistake when copying my post. Change this line:

$link = date('MY');

to:

$link = date('MY',$time);

 

Without the second parameter, the date function will return the formatted string for the current date, hence the reason why the value was always sep2007 (well, it would be till we get to october anyway!)

 

[sotusotusotu]

Stupid me  . Thanks a lot for your help!

[sotusotusotu]

Sorry one more thing if I can be a pain. Can I just get the link to show the abbreviated month in lower case without the date after it?

[GingerRobot]

Try using:

 

$link = strtolower(date('M',$time));

 

You'll find all the formatting characters you need here:

 

www.php.net/date

 

I also used to the strtolower function to make all the characters lower case.

[sotusotusotu]

Thanks again. Seems like a useful site. I do need all the help I can get.