On Fri, February 2, 2007 9:11 am, Dan Shirah wrote:
> I am trying to populate a dropdown list to contain the current year to
> 10
> years in the future. Below is the code I'm using:
>
> <?PHP
> for ($y=0;$y<=10;$y++) {
> $years=date <http://php.net/date>('Y')+$y;
> $short_years=date <http://php.net/date>('y')+$y;
> echo "$short_years";
> echo "<option value=\"$short_years\">$years</option>";
> }
> ?>
> I want the selection value to be 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010.... and the
> $years
> accomplishes this. Howeverm I want the option value to be the two
> digit
> year ex. 07, 08, 09, 10...the $short_years semi accomplishes
> this....instead
> of getting 07, 08, 08, 10 I get 7, 8, 9, 10...how can I get it to
> output the
> two year for 07, 08, 09 without it cutting off the zero?
for ($year = date('Y'); $year <= date('Y') + 10; $year++){
$short_year = $year - 2000;
echo "<option value=\"$short_year\">$year</option>\n";
}
Using the 2-digit year as your value is almost for sure a really Bad
Idea, unless you are dealing with legacy software that absolutely
needs it...
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