auto select actual month in dropdown box

**Matthew White** · Jul 19 '07, 09:35 PM

Re: auto select actual month in dropdown box

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Hi,
>
How can I do this,
I've got a little form with a dropdown.
>
<select name="maand">
<option value='1'>janua ri</option>
<option value='2'>febru ari</option>
<option value='3'>maart </option>
<option value='4'>april </option>
<option value='5'>mei</option>
<option value='6'>juni</option>
<option value='7'>juli</option>
<option value='8'>augus tus</option>
<option value='9'>septe mber</option>
<option value='10'>okto ber</option>
<option value='11'>nove mber</option>
<option value='12'>dece mber</option>
</select>
>
>
I would like to select the current month automatically,
but don't know how to do this?
I would start like this (I think)
>
$maand = S_POST["maand"];
$maandhuidig = date(n);
if($maandhuidig == $maand){
echo?....don't know...}
>
Many tnx
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The option tag has an attribute of selected. This needs to be set as "yes"
for it to be the selected option. I would make the months/numbers an array,
and then use a while loop to echo them all out. Then, if the month is the
current month, add the option tag with the selected="yes" attribute.

Matt

**YvesDM** · Jul 19 '07, 10:45 PM

Re: auto select actual month in dropdown box

Matthew White wrote:

The option tag has an attribute of selected. This needs to be set as
"yes"
for it to be the selected option. I would make the months/numbers an
array,
and then use a while loop to echo them all out. Then, if the month is the
current month, add the option tag with the selected="yes" attribute.
>
Matt

Hi Matt tnx for your answer.
I already resolved this.
My solution is not 100% clean, but it does what I want :-)
I just an extra option on top of the list which has the selected tag
and always takes the value of the current month ;-)

As simple as this:

$monthnow = date("n");
echo <<<EOM
<html>
<form method="post">
<table>
<select name="maand">
<option value='$monthno w'selected>Curr ent month</option>
<option value='1'>janua ri</option>
<option value='2'>febru ari</option>
<option value='3'>maart </option>
<option value='4'>april </option>
<option value='5'>mei</option>
<option value='6'>juni</option>
<option value='7'>juli</option>
<option value='8'>augus tus</option>
<option value='9'>septe mber</option>
<option value='10'>okto ber</option>
<option value='11'>nove mber</option>
<option value='12'>dece mber</option>
</select>

Kind regards,
Yves
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**Michael Fesser** · Jul 19 '07, 11:25 PM

Re: auto select actual month in dropdown box

..oO(YvesDM)

>I already resolved this.
>My solution is not 100% clean, but it does what I want :-)
>I just an extra option on top of the list which has the selected tag
>and always takes the value of the current month ;-)

Ugly. Why not just let PHP print out all the options in a simple loop?
You could even let it generate the month names automatically if you want
(assuming proper locale support).

<option value='$monthno w'selected>Curr ent month</option>

There has to be a space between attributes. Additionally it's better
style to not use minimized attributes, but to write them according to
the stricter XHTML rules. This makes it easier to upgrade in the future.
So the result should look like

<option value='7' selected='selec ted'>Juli</option>

Micha

**Joe Scylla** · Jul 20 '07, 06:45 AM

Re: auto select actual month in dropdown box

YvesDM wrote:

Hi,
>
How can I do this,
I've got a little form with a dropdown.
>
<select name="maand">
<option value='1'>janua ri</option>
<option value='2'>febru ari</option>
<option value='3'>maart </option>
<option value='4'>april </option>
<option value='5'>mei</option>
<option value='6'>juni</option>
<option value='7'>juli</option>
<option value='8'>augus tus</option>
<option value='9'>septe mber</option>
<option value='10'>okto ber</option>
<option value='11'>nove mber</option>
<option value='12'>dece mber</option>
</select>
>
>
I would like to select the current month automatically,
but don't know how to do this?
I would start like this (I think)
>
$maand = S_POST["maand"];
$maandhuidig = date(n);
if($maandhuidig == $maand){
echo?....don't know...}
>
Many tnx

imho a better solution. Our lovly god gave us arrays:

<code>
$months = array
(
1 ="januari",
2 ="februari",
3 ="maart",
4 ="april",
5 ="mei",
6 ="juni",
7 ="juli",
8 ="augustus",
9 ="september" ,
10 ="oktober",
11 ="november",
12 ="december"
);
$selected = date("n");
echo "<select>";
foreach ($months as $i =$v)
{
echo "<option value=\"" . $i . "\"";
if ($i == $selected) echo " selected=\"sele cted\"";
echo ">" . $v . "</option>";
}
echo "</select>";
</code>

**YvesDM** · Jul 20 '07, 07:05 AM

Re: auto select actual month in dropdown box

Michael Fesser wrote:

Ugly.

I know, but I'm pretty new to all this.
Also, this is just a simple form on my intranet to check payments.
(ok, i admit, no excuse)

Why not just let PHP print out all the options in a simple loop?
You could even let it generate the month names automatically if you want
(assuming proper locale support).

I will definately try this way after the php/mysql course i will be taking
in september :-)

There has to be a space between attributes. Additionally it's better
style to not use minimized attributes, but to write them according to
the stricter XHTML rules. This makes it easier to upgrade in the future.
So the result should look like
<option value='7' selected='selec ted'>Juli</option>

Ok, noted that, tnx.

Kind regards
Yves
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**Michael Fesser** · Jul 20 '07, 08:35 AM

Re: auto select actual month in dropdown box

..oO(Joe Scylla)

>foreach ($months as $i =$v)
> {
> echo "<option value=\"" . $i . "\"";
> if ($i == $selected) echo " selected=\"sele cted\"";
> echo ">" . $v . "</option>";
> }

HTML also allows single quotes (avoids escaping) and variables can be
embedded directly into the string (avoids concatenation).

Just my 2 cents

Micha

**Joe Scylla** · Jul 20 '07, 10:55 AM

Re: auto select actual month in dropdown box

Michael Fesser wrote:

.oO(Joe Scylla)
>

>foreach ($months as $i =$v)
> {
> echo "<option value=\"" . $i . "\"";
> if ($i == $selected) echo " selected=\"sele cted\"";
> echo ">" . $v . "</option>";
> }

>
HTML also allows single quotes (avoids escaping) and variables can be
embedded directly into the string (avoids concatenation).
>
Just my 2 cents
>
Micha

it's just my coding style to use only double quotes and never embedd
variables into string.

While theres no difference in using double or single quotes - but
concatenation is much faster than embedd variables into strings.

**Michael Fesser** · Jul 20 '07, 04:55 PM

Re: auto select actual month in dropdown box

..oO(Joe Scylla)

>it's just my coding style to use only double quotes

I've seen horrific code with a lot of escaping, concatenation, single-
and double quotes mixed within to build a complex SQL query. It can be
really hard to find a missing quote in such a mess, but YMMV.

>While theres no difference in using double or single quotes - but
>concatenatio n is much faster than embedd variables into strings.

Not necessarily. In the UCNs on php.net you'll find "benchmarks " that
state one or the other

And performance is hardly ever a reason when printing out something.
BTW, the fastest would probably be an echo with a comma-separated list
of arguments.

Micha

**Andy Hassall** · Jul 20 '07, 06:25 PM

Re: auto select actual month in dropdown box

On Fri, 20 Jul 2007 18:54:25 +0200, Michael Fesser <netizen@gmx.de wrote:

>>While theres no difference in using double or single quotes - but
>>concatenati on is much faster than embedd variables into strings.

>
>Not necessarily. In the UCNs on php.net you'll find "benchmarks " that
>state one or the other

It should probably be mentioned that PHP 5.2.3 included optimisations in the
way PHP parses and evaluates interpolated strings and heredocs, so any
differences are quite possibly even less noticable in versions from now on.

>And performance is hardly ever a reason when printing out something.

Yep. On a related note, I've recently been using xdebug's profiler option,
feeding the data into kcachegrind - this works quite nicely to find the real
bottlenecks in PHP code:

Xdebug: Documentation » Profiling

http://xdebug.org/docs/profiler

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**Rik** · Jul 20 '07, 06:45 PM

Re: auto select actual month in dropdown box

On Fri, 20 Jul 2007 20:24:39 +0200, Andy Hassall <andy@andyh.co. ukwrote:

Yep. On a related note, I've recently been using xdebug's profiler
option,
feeding the data into kcachegrind - this works quite nicely to find the
real
bottlenecks in PHP code:
>
http://xdebug.org/docs/profiler

Ooh, very nice, appreciate it!

--
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