Date in forms

[khristian]

Hi,

 

I am trying to create a form which has a drop down box for the date, however I am having a few problems. What I want it to do is have a couple of standard options, and then todays date, and something like the next 28 days.

 

I have tried

<?$actiondate = date('j F Y');?>

<form>

<select name="date" size="1">

<option selected>-- SELECT --</option>

<option>To Be Confirmed</option>

<option><?echo $actiondate?></option>

<option><?echo $actiondate+1?></option>

<option><?echo $actiondate+2?></option>

<option><?echo $actiondate+3?></option>

<option><?echo $actiondate+4?></option>

<option><?echo $actiondate+5?></option>

</select>

 

but all I get is:

-- SELECT --

To Be Confirmed

29 February 2008

30

31

32

33

etc etc

 

Any advice anyone?

[KrisNz]

your $actiondate variable is a string, you can't just increment it that way. You need to use timestamps thusly...

<select name="date">
    <option value="">--Select Something--</option>
    <option value="TBC">T.B.C</option>
<?php
    $now = time();
    
    for ($i=0;$i<28;$i++) :
        $ts     =  $now + (86400 * $i);
        $date =  date('j F Y',$ts);
?>
        <option value="<?php echo $ts ?>"><?php echo $date ?></option>

<?php endfor; ?>
</select>
    

Also note that your option's need value attributes to be of any use

 

In my example I've made that value the raw timestamp so you can easily convert it into whatever format you need when its sent back to the server for processing.

[Barand]

...or this way using ISO date format for option values

<?php
$today = mktime(0,0,0);

echo "<select name='date'>";
echo "<option selected>-- SELECT --</option><option>To Be Confirmed</option>";

for ($i=0; $i<29; $i++)
{
    $t = strtotime("+$i days", $today);
    $val = date ('Y-m-d', $t);
    $opt = date ('d M Y', $t);
    
    echo "<option value='$val'>$opt</option>";
}
echo '</select>';
?>