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Have a form with 3 drop downs for selecting a date:

DD (01-31)
MM (01-12)
YYYY (2005 - 2010)

How do I get these to default to the current date?

Just use for() statements to make the dropdown lists, and have an "if today, then echo this, else echo this".

monkey_man wrote:
> That'll do it. You'll have to repeat the IF statement for each month
> though, and I'm not sure how the leap year affects it. You can just
> put 29 I suppose, it doesn't matter.
>

Why would you need to repeat it for each month? In fact I don't even understand your reasoning for doing it once.

That'll do it. You'll have to repeat the IF statement for each month though, and I'm not sure how the leap year affects it. You can just put 29 I suppose, it doesn't matter.

Might also need to add 1 to the $end in the WHILE statement, or it might stop one short - can't remember off the top of my head if it counts it or not. Hope it works/helps.

$this_date = date("d");
$this_month = date("M");
$start = 1;

while($start < 31)
{

if($start == $this_date)
{ print("$start"); }
else
{ print("$start"); }

$start++;

}

I'm making sometihng with date functions at the moment, and I've just used a series of IF statements. Big and not clever, but it works.

I'm afraid I don't have a PHP answer - this is the javascript that I use [URL]http://javascript.internet.com/forms/true-date-selector.html[/URL]

It also validates the date - i.e. won't accept an illegal date.

Have a form with 3 drop downs for selecting a date:

DD (01-31)
MM (01-12)
YYYY (2005 - 2010)

How do I get these to default to the current date?