Days Of Week Dropdown
Here is another useful dropdown menu list for forms. This will create a dropdown select of days of the weeks. It should be noted that the week begins on Monday which is day one, as defined by ISO-8601.
The PHP date function date('N') will return the ISO-8601 weekday number. This differs from the date('l') which returns the weekday, beginning with zero for Sunday. In ISO-8601, Sunday is number 7.
<?php
/*
*
* @Create an HTML drop down menu
*
* @param string $name The element name and ID
*
* @param int $selected The day to be selected
*
* @return string
*
*/
function dayDropdown($name="day", $selected=null)
{
$wd = '<select name="'.$name.'" id="'.$name.'">';
$days = array(
1 => 'Monday',
2 => 'Tuesday',
3 => 'Wednesday',
4 => 'Thursday',
5 => 'Friday',
6 => 'Saturday',
7 => 'Sunday');
/*** the current day ***/
$selected = is_null($selected) ? date('N', time()) : $selected;
for ($i = 1; $i <= 7; $i++)
{
$wd .= '<option value="'.$i.'"';
if ($i == $selected)
{
$wd .= ' selected';
}
/*** get the day ***/
$wd .= '>'.$days[$i].'</option>';
}
$wd .= '</select>';
return $wd;
}
/*** example usage ***/
$name = 'my_dropdown';
$day = 3;
echo dayDropdown($name, $day);
?>