Question

I’m building a website for a client (I’m a designer who’s trying to learn to code) and have a three selects.

It looks like this:

Now the client wants the arrival date to reflect the current date in all of the selects. How can I accomplish this with PHP?

Thanks for all help!

Answer 1

Use DateTime

 $date = new DateTime();
 $day = $date->format('d');
 $month = $date->format('m');
 $year = $date->format('Y');

Then when you generate your select

<select name="day">
<?php
for($i = 1; $i <= 31; $i++)
{
  printf('<option value="%d" %s>%d</option>', $i, $i == $day ? 'selected="selected"' : '', $i);
}
?>
</select>