Question

I am trying to get the past 5 years from 2011 into a <cfselect> (or select tag) and outout them as options. This is my current solution…

<cfset dtStart = #year(now())# />
<cfset dtToday = dtStart />

<select name="date">
    <cfloop index="intDayOffset" from="0" to="4" step="1">
        <cfset date = (#dtToday#-#intDayOffset#) />
        <cfoutput><option value="#date#">#date#</option></cfoutput>
    </cfloop>
</select>

Can anyone come up with a more elegant way to achieve this?

Answer 1

This simplifies it a bit

<cfloop index="date" from="#dtToday#" to="#dtToday - 5#" step="-1">
    <cfoutput><option value="#date#">#date#</option></cfoutput>
</cfloop>