Form <option selected> help

Hello,

I am new to PHP and I am having trouble with this. I created a simple page that has a form. There's 3 list fields.

First Field has Dates, so I filled the information like this:
<tr>
<td>Day:</td><td>
<select name="day">
<option>1</option>
<option>2</option>....
<option>31</option>

For the month field the same thing:
<tr>
<td>Month:</td><td>
<select name="month">
<option>Jan</option> ...

and the same for the year. I was wondering what I can do to make the default values in the three fields to point to the current date. Day-> 19, month -> July and year 2004, instead of a weird defualt value. Thanks

$current = explode("-", date("M-d", time()));
$day = $current[1];
$month = $current[0];

Now just do an if statement when parsing through the options. If it == then make it selected.

[CYBER_Aeon]

Here you go:

 $Current = explode( "-", date( "n-j-Y" ) );

 $Month = $Current[0];
 $Day = $Current[1];
 $Year = $Current[2];
 
 $FirstYear = 1980;
 $LastYear = $Year; Â*// Only display up to the current year - Change if you need
 
 // Output Days
 echo "<TR><TD>Day:</TD><TD><SELECT NAME='day'>\n";
 for( $i = 1; $i <= 31; $i++ )
 {
 Â* Â*echo "<OPTION VALUE='" . $i . "'";
 Â* Â*if ( $i == $Day ) echo " SELECTED";
 Â* Â*echo ">" . $i . "</OPTION>\n";
 }
 echo "</SELECT></TD</TR>\n";

 // Output Months
 echo "<TR><TD>Month:</TD><TD><SELECT NAME='month'>\n";
 for( $i = 1; $i <= 12; $i++ )
 {
 Â* Â*echo "<OPTION";
 Â* Â*if ( $i == $Month ) echo " SELECTED";
 Â* Â*echo ">" . date( "M", mktime( 0, 0, 0, $i, $Day, $Year ) ) . "</OPTION>\n";
 }
 echo "</SELECT></TD</TR>\n";

 // Output Years
 echo "<TR><TD>Year:</TD><TD><SELECT NAME='year'>\n";
 for( $i = $FirstYear; $i <= $LastYear; $i++ )
 {
 Â* Â*echo "<OPTION VALUE='" . $i . "'";
 Â* Â*if ( $i == $Year ) echo " SELECTED";
 Â* Â*echo ">" . $i . "</OPTION>\n";
 }
 echo "</SELECT></TD</TR>\n";

That'll do it - I even tested it.

If you want to see it in action, click here.

Thank you very much CYBER_Aeon.