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PHP Month Year Day Selection Drop Down List To Generate Date Format
PHP Month Year Day Selection Drop Down List To Generate Date Format
PHP Month Year Day Selection Drop Down List To Generate Date Format
Indifferentformswewillbeaskingvisitorstoenterthedateinaninputfieldinaparticularformat.The
betterwayistoaskthevisitorstoselectmonth,dateandyearfromadropdownlistbox.Sothevisitorcan
easilymakethechoiceofdatemonthandyear.Thedropdownlistboxwillcontainonlythevaliditemsso
thereisnoneedtochecktheinputsagain.Wewilltrytocreatetwodropdownboxformonthanddateand
onetextboxforenteringyear.Youcanchangetheyeartextentryboxtodropdownlistboxwithyour
optionsofyears.
DateValidation
Notethatwearenotvalidatinganyinputshereandyoucanaddthemifrequired.Youcancheck
differentvalidationsusingPHPhere.
RELATEDTUTORIALSValidatinguserenteredDateCalendarforuserselection
Wewilluseoneformandinsidethatwewilladdallthreeformcomponentstoacceptmonthdateandyear
fromthevisitors.Usingthethreevaluesenteredbyuserswecancreateadateformatwhichwecanusein
andSQLquerytoinserttoanydatabaseorstore.Theformatyyyymmddisusedtostoreinadatefieldof
mysqltable.
Pleasenotethatheretheformissubmittedtothesamepageandthevariablesareavailableforouruse.Ifin
yourserversettingsglobalvariablesaresetforOFFthenyouhavetocollecttheformsubmittedvaluesas
$month=$_POST['month']orindifferentwaysbasedontheversionofPHPyouarerunning.Hereisthe
demoofthedropdownlistboxfordateformat.
Thecodefortheabovelistboxesandtheformishere.
<?Php
$todo=$_POST['todo'];
if(isset($todo)and$todo=="submit"){
$month=$_POST['month'];
$dt=$_POST['dt'];
$year=$_POST['year'];
$date_value="$month/$dt/$year";
echo"mm/dd/yyyyformat:$date_value<br>";
$date_value="$year$month$dt";
echo"YYYYmmddformat:$date_value<br>";
?>
<formmethod=postname=f1action=''><inputtype=hiddenname=todovalue=submit>
<tableborder="0"cellspacing="0">
<tr><tdalign=left>
<selectname=monthvalue=''>SelectMonth</option>
<optionvalue='01'>January</option>
<optionvalue='02'>February</option>
<optionvalue='03'>March</option>
<optionvalue='04'>April</option>
<optionvalue='05'>May</option>
<optionvalue='06'>June</option>
<optionvalue='07'>July</option>
<optionvalue='08'>August</option>
<optionvalue='09'>September</option>
<optionvalue='10'>October</option>
<optionvalue='11'>November</option>
<optionvalue='12'>December</option>
</select>
</td><tdalign=left>
Date<selectname=dt>
<optionvalue='01'>01</option>
<optionvalue='02'>02</option>
<optionvalue='03'>03</option>
<optionvalue='04'>04</option>
<optionvalue='05'>05</option>
<optionvalue='06'>06</option>
<optionvalue='07'>07</option>
<optionvalue='08'>08</option>
<optionvalue='09'>09</option>
<optionvalue='10'>10</option>
<optionvalue='11'>11</option>
<optionvalue='12'>12</option>
<optionvalue='13'>13</option>
<optionvalue='14'>14</option>
<optionvalue='15'>15</option>
<optionvalue='16'>16</option>
<optionvalue='17'>17</option>
<optionvalue='18'>18</option>
<optionvalue='19'>19</option>
<optionvalue='20'>20</option>
<optionvalue='21'>21</option>
<optionvalue='22'>22</option>
<optionvalue='23'>23</option>
<optionvalue='24'>24</option>
<optionvalue='25'>25</option>
<optionvalue='26'>26</option>
<optionvalue='27'>27</option>
<optionvalue='28'>28</option>
<optionvalue='29'>29</option>
<optionvalue='30'>30</option>
<optionvalue='31'>31</option>
</select>
</td><tdalign=left>
Year(yyyy)<inputtype=textname=yearsize=4value=2005>
<inputtype=submitvalue=Submit>
</table>
</form>
ListingallpreviousMonthsstartingfromcurrentmonthusingstrtotime()
Strtotimereturnsunixtimestampbytakingtextstringofdate&timeinputs
Hereisthecode
for($i=0;$i<=11;$i++){
$month=date('M',strtotime("firstdayof$imonth"));
echo$month."<br>";
Outputishere
Aug
Jul
Jun
May
Apr
Mar
Feb
Jan
Dec
Nov
Oct
Sep
Creatingadropdownlistusingabovecode
echo"<selectname=month>";
for($i=0;$i<=11;$i++){
$month=date('F',strtotime("firstdayof$imonth"));
echo"<optionvalue=$month>$month</option>";
echo"</select>";
Outputishere
Listingnext5yearsstartingfrompresentyear
echo"<selectname=year>";
for($i=0;$i<=5;$i++){
$year=date('Y',strtotime("lastdayof+$iyear"));
echo"<optionname='$year'>$year</option>";
echo"</select>";
Outputishere