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DiegoP.
DiegoP.

Reputation: 45737

PHP Creating select box starting from current month

I have a select box with the following values ( months of the year ):

<label for="select_month">Month: </label>
<select id="select_month" name="month">
<option value="01">01</option>
<option value="02">02</option>
<option value="03">03</option>
<option value="04">04</option>
<option value="05">05</option>
<option value="06">06</option>
<option value="07">07</option>
<option value="08">08</option>
<option value="09">09</option>
<option value="10">10</option>
<option value="11">11</option>
<option value="12">12</option>
</select>

What I would like to achieve is to get with PHP the current month, and make that as default-selected option in my select box.

How can I do that with a clean code?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 7562

Answers (5)

Batfan
Batfan

Reputation: 8266

Uses a similar structure to Pratt's answer, but uses the double-digit month values (like you had in your example). It uses date('m') instead of date('n') and since there doesn't appear to be any way to get leading zeros in PHP range, I used an array.

<select name="month">
<?php foreach(array('01','02','03','04','05','06','07','08','09','10','11','12') as $m) : ?>
    <option value="<?php echo $m; ?>" <?php if (date('m') == $m) { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>
        <?php echo $m ?>
     </option>
<?php endforeach; ?>
</select>

Upvotes: 1

Andreas Helgegren
Andreas Helgegren

Reputation: 1678

Here is my two cents:

<label for="select_month">Month: </label>
<select id="select_month" name="month">

<?php

 for($i = 1; $i <= 12; $i++) {
  $isCurrentMonth = ($i == intVal(date("m"))) ? 'true': 'false';
  echo "<option value=\"$i\" selected=\"$isCurrentMonth\">$i</option>\n";
 }

?>

</select>

Upvotes: 1

mpratt
mpratt

Reputation: 1608

Perhaps something like this?

<select name="month">
<?php foreach(range('1', '12') as $m) : ?>
    <option value="<?php echo $m; ?>" <?php if (date('n') == $m) { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>
        <?php echo $m ?>
     </option>
<?php endforeach; ?>
</select>

Upvotes: 2

Zoe Edwards
Zoe Edwards

Reputation: 13687

for ($i = 1; $i <= 12; $i++)
(
    $month = ($i < 10) ? '0'.$i : $i;
    echo '<option value="'.$month.'"';
    if ($i == date("n")) echo ' selected="selected"';
    echo '>'.$month.'</option>';
)

I can't test this as I'm on my phone, but that should do the trick.

Upvotes: 4

Patrickdev
Patrickdev

Reputation: 2381

<option value="01" <?php echo (1 == date("n") ? 'selected="selected"' : ''); ?>>01</option>

This will have to be done for every option - a for loop might be nice in this situation.

Upvotes: 0

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