PHP generated year drop down select box
A very common feature of forms
is the dropdown <select>
box, commonly using a range of years as the options.
</select>
Writing and maintaining these long list of options/years can be very monotonous via plain HTML.
This following codebyte generates a simple select
box, with an for each year based on some basic arguments.
Change $currently_selected
to be the option you want as the top/default option of the select box.
$earliest_year
to be the lowest year you want the range to start at.
$latest_year
to be the highest year you want your range to go to.
<!--?php
// Sets the top option to be the current year. (IE. the option that is chosen by default).
$currently_selected = date('Y');
// Year to start available options at
$earliest_year = 1950;
// Set your latest year you want in the range, in this case we use PHP to just set it to the current year.
$latest_year = date('Y');
print '<select>';
// Loops over each int[year] from current year, back to the $earliest_year [1950]
foreach ( range( $latest_year, $earliest_year ) as $i ) {
// Prints the option with the next year in range.
print '<option value="'.$i.'"'.($i === $currently_selected ? ' selected="selected"' : '').'>'.$i.'</option>';
}
print '</select>';
?-->
The above code byte generates: