How do I set the date in a <select> based field to be todays?

[WorldNews]

Hello,

How do I set the date in a <select> based field to be todays?
To be exact I have a date range selection for issuing a MySQL query like:

Start date: [day] [month] [year]

and I want the values for day, month, year to be todays date.
How does one do that in PHP?
Of course [day] [month] [year] are all <select> based drop down lists
and their values are generated by PHP code using for loops.
So my question is how do I find out what todays date is and then set
[day] to todays value, [month] to be current month value, etc?

Regards,

[Stormrider]

Look at the php date() function:

http://uk2.php.net/manual/en/function.date.php

This way you can easily find out the current day, month and year. Then in your loops, output 'selected="selected"' if they match the current date.

[Daniel0]

Something like this?

echo '<select name="day">';
for ($i = 1; $i <= 31; $i++) {
	$selected = date('j') == $i ? ' selected="selected"' : null;
	echo '<option' . $selected . '>' . $i . '</option>';
}
echo '</select>';

Same concept for month and year of course.

[WorldNews]

ThanX for this tip.
It was just the tip that I needed to quickly get it done.

Have a great day all

Look at the php date() function:

http://uk2.php.net/manual/en/function.date.php

This way you can easily find out the current day, month and year. Then in your loops, output 'selected="selected"' if they match the current date.