{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.

Attributes

Attribute Name	Default	Description
prefix	Date_	What to prefix the var name with
time		What date/time to pre-select. Accepts timestamps, DateTime objects or any string parseable by strtotime(). If an array is given, the attributes field_array and prefix are used to identify the array elements to extract year, month and day from. Omitting this parameter or supplying a falsy value will select the current date. To prevent date selection, pass in NULL.
start_year	current year	The first year in the dropdown, either year number, or relative to current year (+/- N)
end_year	same as start_year	The last year in the dropdown, either year number, or relative to current year (+/- N)
display_days	TRUE	Whether to display days or not
display_months	TRUE	Whether to display months or not
display_years	TRUE	Whether to display years or not
month_names		List of strings to display for months. array(1 => 'Jan', ..., 12 => 'Dec')
month_format	\%B	What format the month should be in (strftime)
day_format	\%02d	What format the day output should be in (sprintf)
day_value_format	\%d	What format the day value should be in (sprintf)
year_as_text	FALSE	Whether or not to display the year as text
reverse_years	FALSE	Display years in reverse order
field_array		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		Adds size attribute to select tag if given
month_size		Adds size attribute to select tag if given
year_size		Adds size attribute to select tag if given
all_extra		Adds extra attributes to all select/input tags if given
day_extra		Adds extra attributes to select/input tags if given
month_extra		Adds extra attributes to select/input tags if given
year_extra		Adds extra attributes to select/input tags if given
all_id		Adds id-attribute to all select/input tags if given
day_id		Adds id-attribute to select/input tags if given
month_id		Adds id-attribute to select/input tags if given
year_id		Adds id-attribute to select/input tags if given
field_order	MDY	The order in which to display the fields
field_separator	\n	String printed between different fields
month_value_format	\%m	strftime() format of the month values, default is %m for month numbers.
all_empty		If supplied then the first element of any select-box has this value as it's label and "" as it's value. This is useful to make the select-boxes read "Please select" for example.
year_empty		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		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		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.

Exaples

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>

{* 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>