$cur_month = date("m");
while ($r = mysql_fetch_array($month_query))
{
$v = $r["m_id"];
$out = $r["months"];
if( $cur_month = $v )
{
echo("<option selected=".$cur_month.
"value=".$v.">".$out."</option>")
}
....
}
Jef
-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Novitski [mailto:paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Sunday, May 21, 2006 2:55 AM
To: php-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: selecting current month from a database
At 11:45 PM 5/20/2006, Paul Goepfert wrote:
>I have a drop down menu where I have the
>months of year as menu items. I want to be able to have the current
>month be the selected month. I have tried using the date function as
>the way to set the current month as the selected value but it seems
>that every value entered in the select box is set to selected.
>
>Here is my code maybe someone can help me out
>
>$month_query = mysql_query("SELECT m_id, months FROM Month");
> while ($r = mysql_fetch_array($month_query))
> {
> $v = $r["m_id"];
> $out = $r["months"];
> echo("<option selected=" .
> date("F") . "value=$v>$out</option>\n");
> }
>
>Just incase you want to know
>
>m_id = 1..12
>months = January..December
>
>How do I set only the current month to selected ?
Paul,
The syntax for pre-selected options is:
HTML: <option selected> [1]
XHTML: <option selected="selected"> [2]
Options that are not pre-selected simply omit the
selected attribute altogether.
Therefore you'll want code something like this:
while ($r = mysql_fetch_array($month_query))
{
$v = $r["m_id"]; // numeric month
$out = $r["months"]; // verbal month
// select option for current month
if ($v == date("n"))
{
$selected = 'selected="selected"';
}else{
$selected = '';
}
echo "<option $selected value="$v">$out</option>\n";
}
Notes:
- date("F") is the verbal month; date("n") is
numeric [3]. Therefore you'll want to compare $v
with date("n") or $out with date("F").
- Adhering to XHTML syntax, I've put the attribute values in quotes. [2]
- FYI, you can harmlessly include parentheses in
the echo statement but echo is actually not a
function and doesn't require parens [4].
Regards,
Paul
________________________
[1]
W3C HTML 4.01 Specification
17 Forms
17.6.1 Pre-selected options
http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/interact/forms.html#h-17.6.1
[2]
XHTML(tm) 1.0 The Extensible HyperText Markup Language (Second Edition)
4. Differences with HTML 4
4.4. Attribute values must always be quoted
http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/#h-4.4
[3]
PHP Manual
VI. Function Reference
CLI. String Functions
echo
http://php.net/echo
[4]
PHP Manual
VI. Function Reference
XXII. Date and Time Functions
date
http://php.net/date
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