Default Value in PHP For Loop

Question

I have a HTML select form to select the day/month/year, and this is generated with PHP. My for loop, for example with the month, looks like this:

$html="<select name=\"".$name."month\">";       
for($i=1;$i<=12;$i++)
 {$html.="<option value='$i'>$months[$i]</option>";}
$html.="</select> ";

I can't seem to figure out how to set a "default" value to the current month while retaining all of the prior months in the dropdown (I can just set $i=date("n"), but then I lose the ability to select any prior month).

Does anybody know a simple way of setting the default value to be the current day? Thank you very much!

+1 to the answer that fits the question... but you could do it in Javascript.
Thanks! I didn't choose the javascript method because of support and speed.

Dave Chen · Accepted Answer · 2013-06-08 05:41:38Z

up vote 4 down vote accepted

Try this:

<?php

$currentMonth = date("m");

$html = "<select name=\"" . $name . "month\">";
for ($i = 1; $i <= 12; $i++) {
    if ($i == $currentMonth) {
        $html .= "<option selected='selected' value='$i'>$months[$i]</option>";
    } else {
        $html .= "<option value='$i'>$months[$i]</option>";
    }
}
$html .= "</select> ";

echo $html;

?>

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Dave Chen
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	i am late :( it was easy question – web2students.com yesterday
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	@paul i wanted to say, if i had answered before him, i would have got +1 . i know it's childish nature dying for +1 but i have this nature – web2students.com yesterday

Ed Heal · Answer 2 · 2013-06-08 05:42:34Z

up vote 0 down vote

Psul - look at using selected (see http://www.w3schools.com/tags/att_option_selected.asp) and changed the code to add this when the loop reaches the month.

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