Version: 1.0
Type: Function
Category: Calendars/Dates
License: GNU General Public License
Description: I was looking for the easiest, quickest way to add a date picker to my internal web site without having to add more javascript or a pop-up window. I found several fantastic javascripts to add calendars to the page and a few even used layers instead of pop-ups, but I was looking for something simpler. I noticed that although the javascript calendars will allow you to pick a date years away, most of my users were picking dates in the next 60 days and no more than 120 ever. So for my application I came up with this. Quick and easy you just call the function whereever you want the date dropdown to show up. You can force the name of the <select> field with the $default param and you can specify the number of days to display with the $size param.
http://www.multi.com/Coding/PHPDateDropDown.php
function DateDropDown($size=90,$default="DropDate") {
// $size = the number of days to display in the drop down
// $default = Todays date in m:d:Y format (SEE DATE COMMAND ON WWW.PHP.NET)
// $skip = if set then the program will skip Sundays and Saturdays
$skip=1;
echo "<select name=dropdate STYLE="font-family: monospace;">n";
for ($i = 0; $i <= $size; $i++) {
$theday = mktime (0,0,0,date("m") ,date("d")+$i ,date("Y"));
$option=date("D M j, Y",$theday);
$value=date("m:d:Y",$theday);
$dow=date("D",$theday);
if ($dow=="Sun") {
echo "<option disabled> </option>n";
}
if ($value == $default) {
$selected="SELECTED";
} else {
$selected="";
}
if (($dow!="Sun" and $dow!="Sat") or !$skip) {
echo "<option value="$value" $selected>$option</option>n";
}
}
echo "</select>n";
}
