Re: Year

On Fri, 2007-02-02 at 10:21 -0500, Robert Cummings wrote: > On Fri, 2007-02-02 at 10:11 -0500, Dan Shirah wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > I am trying to populate a dropdown list to contain the current year to 10 > > years in the future. Below is the code I'm using: > > > > <?PHP > > for ($y=0;$y<=10;$y++) { > > $years=date > > <http://php.net/date>('Y')+$y; > > $short_years=date > > <http://php.net/date>('y')+$y; > > echo "$short_years"; > > echo "<option value=\"$short_years\">$years</option>"; > > } > > ?> > > I want the selection value to be 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010.... and the $years > > accomplishes this. Howeverm I want the option value to be the two digit > > year ex. 07, 08, 09, 10...the $short_years semi accomplishes this....instead > > of getting 07, 08, 08, 10 I get 7, 8, 9, 10...how can I get it to output the > > two year for 07, 08, 09 without it cutting off the zero? > > <?php > > $year = date( 'Y' ); > for( $i = 0; $i < 10; $i++ ) > { > $iYear = substr( (string)($year + 1), 2 ); > echo '<option > value="'.$iYear.'">'.$iYear.'</option>'; > } > > ?> Bleh... Typo in the above... so here's a better one :) <?php $currYear = date( 'Y' ); for( $i = 0; $i < 10; $i++ ) { $longYear = $currYear + $i; $shortYear = substr( (string)$longYear, 2 ); echo '<option value="'.$shortYear.'">'.$longYear.'</option>'; } ?> Cheers, Rob. -- .------------------------------------------------------------. | InterJinn Application Framework - http://www.interjinn.com | :------------------------------------------------------------: | An application and templating framework for PHP. Boasting | | a powerful, scalable system for accessing system services | | such as forms, properties, sessions, and caches. InterJinn | | also provides an extremely flexible architecture for | | creating re-usable components quickly and easily. | `------------------------------------------------------------'