Question

I have a set of selects for a date of birth:

<?php echo $this->Form->input('Profile.dob', array('label' => 'Date of Birth'
                                    , 'dateFormat' => 'DMY'
                                    , 'minYear' => date('Y') - 100
                                    , 'maxYear' => date('Y') - 13)); ?>

and want to set the defaults to be the words “DAY MONTH YEAR” in the selects.

I have managed to do this with the gender with:

<?php echo $this->Form->input('Profile.gender', array('label' => 'Gender', 'type' => 'select',
         'options' => array('Male'=>'Male','Female'=>'Female'),'empty'=>'Select Sex')); ?>

but I don’t see how to do this with the automagic date input…

Can anyone help? Thanks

Answer 1

If you don’t mind 2 more lines, you can try doing this?

<?php
echo $this->Form->year('Profile.dob', date('Y') - 100, date('Y') - 13, array('empty' => "YEAR"));
echo $this->Form->month('Profile.dob', array('empty' => "MONTH"));
echo $this->Form->day('Profile.dob', array('empty' => 'DAY'));

?>