Why don't you use an integer? For and strings don't like each other very much... <? for ($i = 0; $i < 12; $i++ ) { $idx = sprintf("%02d", $i + 1); echo " <option value='$idx'>$idx\n"; } ?> Bye! 8-) Espeleta Tomas -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]