PHPMonthyeardayselectiondropdownlisttogeneratedateformat

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