On Fri, 2007-02-02 at 19:02 -0600, Richard Lynch wrote: > On Fri, February 2, 2007 9:11 am, Dan Shirah wrote: > > I am trying to populate a dropdown list to contain the current year to > > 10 > > years in the future. Below is the code I'm using: > > > > <?PHP > > for ($y=0;$y<=10;$y++) { > > $years=date <http://php.net/date>('Y')+$y; > > $short_years=date <http://php.net/date>('y')+$y; > > echo "$short_years"; > > echo "<option value=\"$short_years\">$years</option>"; > > } > > ?> > > I want the selection value to be 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010.... and the > > $years > > accomplishes this. Howeverm I want the option value to be the two > > digit > > year ex. 07, 08, 09, 10...the $short_years semi accomplishes > > this....instead > > of getting 07, 08, 08, 10 I get 7, 8, 9, 10...how can I get it to > > output the > > two year for 07, 08, 09 without it cutting off the zero? > > for ($year = date('Y'); $year <= date('Y') + 10; $year++){ > $short_year = $year - 2000; > echo "<option value=\"$short_year\">$year</option>\n"; > } > > Using the 2-digit year as your value is almost for sure a really Bad > Idea, unless you are dealing with legacy software that absolutely > needs it... Sorry Richard, you solution fails since he wants to retain the leading zeros on the 2 digit years. Using subtraction and not formatting the result will result in the loss of the 0 in 07. Also, why call the date() function 10 times by embedding it in the loop's terminate condition? Cheers, Rob. -- .------------------------------------------------------------. | InterJinn Application Framework - http://www.interjinn.com | :------------------------------------------------------------: | An application and templating framework for PHP. Boasting | | a powerful, scalable system for accessing system services | | such as forms, properties, sessions, and caches. InterJinn | | also provides an extremely flexible architecture for | | creating re-usable components quickly and easily. | `------------------------------------------------------------' -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php