Jason Pruim wrote:
Hi Tamara,
On Sep 11, 2010, at 12:39 PM, Tamara Temple wrote:
Rather than repeating all that code, I suggest the following:
<select name="type" id="type>
<option value="0">-- select type --</option>
<option value="meeting" <?php echo (isset($_POST['hidSubmit'] &&
$_POST['hidSubmit'] == TRUE && $_POST['type'] == "meeting") ?
"selected" : '' ?>
<option value="event" <?php echo (isset($_POST['hidSubmit'] &&
$_POST['hidSubmit'] == TRUE && $_POST['type'] == "event") ? "selected"
: '' ?>
</select>
That's actually what I'm trying to get away from. I was hoping to do it
all in HEREDOC syntax. I've always thought it made it cleaner. But that
is a personal opinion :)
For a month selector, try:
<?php
// assume current month number is in $curr_month
$months = array(1 => "January", "February", "March", "April", "May",
"June", "July", "August", "September", "October", "November",
"December"); // will create an array of month names, with a starting
base of 1 (instead of zero)
echo "<select name=\"month\" id=\"month\">\n";
foreach ($months as $m => $mname) {
echo "<option value=\"$m\"";
if ($curr_month == $m) echo " selected ";
echo ">$mname</option>\n";
}
echo "</select>\n";
?>
There are other possiblities as well. One time, I didn't want to
actually store the month names, perhaps allowing them to be localized.
Instead I used strftime, which will return appropriate names based on
locale:
<?php
// assume current month number is in $curr_month
echo "<select name=\"month\" id=\"month\">\n";
for ($m = 1; $m <= 12; $m++) {
echo "<option value=\"$m\"";
if ($curr_month == $m) echo " selected ";
echo ">";
$mname = strftime("%B", 0,0,0,2010, $m, 1); // time, year and day
don't matter, all we're after is the appropriate month name set in the
locale
echo $mname;
echo "</option>\n";
}
echo "</select>\n";
?>
I'm actually doing something similar to that right now...
<?PHP
if (isset($_POST)) {
$date = date("n", $i);
echo $date;
$i++;
}
?>
Prints just the numeric reference to the month.
Here is a combination of Tamara's method and they way that I would do it
based off her example. Some of hers didn't work for me out of the box,
so I modified it to my liking. Then I included your request to do
HEREDOC syntax for outputting the list.
<?php
$o = array();
for ($m = 1; $m <= 12; $m++) {
$sel = ($curr_month == $m ? ' selected="selected"':'');
$mname = date('F', mktime(0,0,0,$m));
$o[] = ' <option value="'.(int)$m.'"'.$sel.'>'.
htmlspecialchars($mname).'</option>';
}
$select_month_options = join("\n", $o);
echo <<<HTML
<select name="month" id="month">
{$select_month_options}
</select>
HTML;
?>
Jim
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