I'm trying to autofill the date function for a dropdown. I thought it would be a fairly straightforward bit of code. I've searched online and fiddled with it for about an hour now and still no luck. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. :)
$day = 1;
while ($day < 32) {
echo "<option value=/"$day/"> $day </option>";
$day++;
}
In order to escape quotes and double quotes, your slashes need to be backslashes like below.
$day = 1;
while ($day < 32) {
echo "<option value=\"{$day}\"> $day </option>";
$day++;
}
It's also a good idea to wrap variables that aren't appended to a string using . with curly braces {}. If you get in the habit, performing tasks like printing an array value will be much easier later on.
Have you thought about using a for loop?
The for way:
for($day=1;$day<32;$day++)
echo "<option value=\"{$day}\">$day</option>";
Your while way:
$day=1
while($day < 32){
echo "<option value=\"{$day}\">$day</option>";
$day++;
}
You could try doing this on your code. instead of using slashes to scape your double quotes, i dont think they're different but this looks alot cleaner than all those slashes
$day = 1;
while ($day < 32) {
echo "<option value='".$day."'> $day </option>";
$day++;
}
echo "<option value=\"$day\"> $day </option>";