Question

I am have this query below that is a drop down for year (from 1900-current). I am using a $variable to show a previously chosen year first in the drop down for an edit form. It works except that for all other years 2011 is also repeated with them. How do i tweak it so that $y shows first and then all years underneath that?

Code:

    <select name="year">
<?PHP for($i=date("1900"); $i<=date("2011"); $i++)
        if($year == $i)
            echo "<option value='$y' selected>$y</option>
     <option value='$i' selected>$i</option>";
        else
            echo "<option value='$y' selected>$y</option>
     <option value='$i'>$i</option>";
?>
    </select></td>
    </tr> 

Answer 1

Keep it simple:

    <select name="year">
        <?php for($i=1900; $i<=date('Y'); $i++) {
        if($i == date('Y'))
            echo "<option value='$i' selected='selected'>$i</option>";
        else
            echo "<option value='$i'>$i</option>";
        }
?>
    </select></td>
    </tr> 

Or even better:

<select name="year">
    <?php for($i=1900; $i<=date('Y'); $i++)
        echo "<option value='$i' ".(($i == date('Y')?'selected="selected"':'')).">$i</option>";
    ?>
</select></td>
</tr> 

And backwards

<select name="year">
    <?php for($i=date('Y'); $i>=1900; $i--)
        echo "<option value='$i' ".(($i == date('Y')?'selected="selected"':'')).">$i</option>";
    ?>
</select></td>
</tr>