Self-adjusting credit card expiration in dropdown menu

PHP
1

I’m interested in doing something like this example from CakePHP, so I don’t have to update my forms every year. Anyone know how to do this in regular old PHP?

–cz

2

This is easy to do using the date function. Since expiration must always be current year or higher, you can simply retrieve current year and go from there.

For ($i= date(‘Y’); $i <= date(‘Y’)+7; $i++)
{
echo $i;
}

3

Thanks, that put me on the right track. I just created 10 options, in this format:

<option value="<?php echo date('y'); ?>" <?php if((isset($_POST['CCYear'])) && ($_POST["CCYear"]==date('y'))){echo "selected=\\"selected\\""; ?><?php } ?>><?php echo date('Y'); ?></option>
<option value="<?php echo date('y')+1; ?>" <?php if((isset($_POST['CCYear'])) && ($_POST["CCYear"]==date('y')+1)){echo "selected=\\"selected\\""; ?><?php } ?>><?php echo date('Y')+1; ?></option>
//etc.

So the form self-updates, and the form data is persistent after server-side error-checking.