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- Using Text Within date()
- Automatically Localizing Dates
- Manually Localizing Dates
- Using the Current Date the U.S./U.K./European Way
- Formatting a Specific Date
- Validating a Date
- Calculating a Relative Date
- Creating a Sortable Time Stamp
- Converting a String into a Date
- Determining Sunrise and Sunset
- Using Date and Time for Benchmarks
- Using Form Fields for Date Selection
- Create Self-updating Form Fields for Date Selection
- Calculating the Difference Between Two Dates
- Using GMT Date/Time Information
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
Using Form Fields for Date Selection
<select name="month"><?php
for ($i = 1; $i <= 12; $i++) {
$monthname = date(‘F‘, mktime(12, 0, 0, $i, 1, 2005));
echo "<option value=\"$i\">$monthname</option>";
}
?></select>
If you want to offer an HTML form to select a date, like many hotel- and flight-booking services offer, you can use the various parameters of date(); loop through all months of the year; and, therefore, create a selection list of days, months, and years. The preceding code contains the code for this; see Figure 3.4 for the result.
<form method="post" action="<?php echo
htmlspecialchars($_SERVER[’PHP_SELF’]); ?>">
<select name="day"><?php
for ($i = 1; $i <= 31; $i++) {
echo "<option value=\"$i\">$i</option>\n";
}
?></select>
<select name="month"><?php
for ($i = 1; $i <= 12; $i++) {
$monthname = date(‘F‘, mktime(12, 0, 0, $i, 1,
2005));
echo "<option value=\"$i\">$monthname</ option>";
}
?></select>
<select name="year"><?php
for ($i = 2005; $i <= 2010; $i++) {
echo "<option value=\"$i\">$i</option>";
}
?></select>
</form>
Selecting a Date Using an HTML Form (dateselection.php; excerpt)