{html_select_date}

{html_select_date} is a custom function that creates date dropdowns. It can display any or all of year, month, and day. All parameters that are not in the list below are printed as name/value-pairs inside the <select> tags of day, month and year.

Attribute Name	Type	Required	Default	Description
prefix	string	No	Date_	What to prefix the var name with
time	timestamp/ YYYY-MM-DD	No	current time in unix timestamp or YYYY-MM-DD format	What date/time to use
start_year	string	No	current year	The first year in the dropdown, either year number, or relative to current year (+/- N)
end_year	string	No	same as start_year	The last year in the dropdown, either year number, or relative to current year (+/- N)
display_days	boolean	No	`TRUE`	Whether to display days or not
display_months	boolean	No	`TRUE`	Whether to display months or not
display_years	boolean	No	`TRUE`	Whether to display years or not
month_format	string	No	%B	What format the month should be in (strftime)
day_format	string	No	%02d	What format the day output should be in (sprintf)
day_value_format	string	No	%d	What format the day value should be in (sprintf)
year_as_text	boolean	No	`FALSE`	Whether or not to display the year as text
reverse_years	boolean	No	`FALSE`	Display years in reverse order
field_array	string	No	null	If a name is given, the select boxes will be drawn such that the results will be returned to PHP in the form of name[Day], name[Year], name[Month].
day_size	string	No	null	Adds size attribute to select tag if given
month_size	string	No	null	Adds size attribute to select tag if given
year_size	string	No	null	Adds size attribute to select tag if given
all_extra	string	No	null	Adds extra attributes to all select/input tags if given
day_extra	string	No	null	Adds extra attributes to select/input tags if given
month_extra	string	No	null	Adds extra attributes to select/input tags if given
year_extra	string	No	null	Adds extra attributes to select/input tags if given
field_order	string	No	MDY	The order in which to display the fields
field_separator	string	No	\n	String printed between different fields
month_value_format	string	No	%m	strftime() format of the month values, default is %m for month numbers.
year_empty	string	No	null	If supplied then the first element of the year's select-box has this value as it's label and "" as it's value. This is useful to make the select-box read "Please select a year" for example. Note that you can use values like "-MM-DD" as time-attribute to indicate an unselected year.
month_empty	string	No	null	If supplied then the first element of the month's select-box has this value as it's label and "" as it's value. . Note that you can use values like "YYYY--DD" as time-attribute to indicate an unselected month.
day_empty	string	No	null	If supplied then the first element of the day's select-box has this value as it's label and "" as it's value. Note that you can use values like "YYYY-MM-" as time-attribute to indicate an unselected day.

Note: There is an useful php function on the date tips page for converting {html_select_date} form values to a timestamp.

Example 8-19. {html_select_date}

Template code

{html_select_date}

This will output:

<select name="Date_Month">
<option value="1">January</option>
<option value="2">February</option>
<option value="3">March</option>
  ..... snipped .....
<option value="10">October</option>
<option value="11">November</option>
<option value="12" selected="selected">December</option>
</select>
<select name="Date_Day">
<option value="1">01</option>
<option value="2">02</option>
<option value="3">03</option>
  ..... snipped .....
<option value="11">11</option>
<option value="12">12</option>
<option value="13" selected="selected">13</option>
<option value="14">14</option>
<option value="15">15</option>
  ..... snipped .....
<option value="29">29</option>
<option value="30">30</option>
<option value="31">31</option>
</select>
<select name="Date_Year">
<option value="2006" selected="selected">2006</option>
</select>

Example 8-20. {html_select_date} second example

{* start and end year can be relative to current year *}
{html_select_date prefix='StartDate' time=$time start_year='-5'
   end_year='+1' display_days=false}

With 2000 as the current year the output:

<select name="StartDateMonth">
<option value="1">January</option>
<option value="2">February</option>
.... snipped ....
<option value="11">November</option>
<option value="12" selected="selected">December</option>
</select>
<select name="StartDateYear">
<option value="1995">1995</option>
.... snipped ....
<option value="1999">1999</option>
<option value="2000" selected="selected">2000</option>
<option value="2001">2001</option>
</select>