I have a Scheduling system on my company website that employees can use to post their schedules. It works great, but it's missing one thing.

They can choose a different month by selecting it from a Drop Down Menu - however the default on the menu is always 01. How do I make the drop down list display the current month as the initially selected value.

Something to do with variables I'm sure.

Thanks in advance,

Andrew

A little lateral thinking was needed for this one... You do have two options, you could check the current month variable using the PHP date() command, on each line, but I find this method a little untidy.

Here's how I would achieve this...

<pre id=code><font face=courier size=2 id=code>
&lt;select name="month"&gt;
&lt;?php for ($k=0; $k &lt; 12; $k++) {
$currMonth = date("m";
$theValue = $k;
if ($k &lt; 10) {
$theValue = "0" . $theValue;
}
if ($theValue == $currMonth) {
$selText = "selected";
} else {
$selText = "";
}
?&gt;
&lt;option value="&lt;?php echo $theValue; ?&gt;" &lt;?php echo $selText; ?&gt;&gt;&lt;?php echo $theValue; ?&gt;&lt;/option&gt;
&lt;?php } ?&gt;
&lt;/select&gt;
</font id=code></pre id=code>

I've basically built up all your options for the select statement using a for..next loop, which is a little more efficient.

I hope this helps.


Tim Green

Extension & PHP TalkZone Manager
<font size=1>-------------------------------------------
<i>Please read the Forum FAQ before posting
a question to this TalkZone.</i>
-------------------------------------------
www.UDzone.com : A dynamic Dreamweaver,
Ultradev and Fireworks site for developers
by developers.
-------------------------------------------</font id=size1>

Thanks Tim - works a charm!

Andrew