[dihan]

Hi,

I'm trying to figure out the best method in order to do this system.

I wanted to have a dropdown list/menu of days (Sun - Sat). But I want to select the days available to choose from. i.e

PHP Code:

//Will be rows coming from MySql

$days = $row['days'];



echo'

<select NAME="Night" TYPE="text" class=Field STYLE="WIDTH: 190px">

<option selected>Day?</option>

<option>Tuesday</option>

<option>Wednesday</option>

<option>Friday</option>

<option>Saturday</option>

</select>'; 

I thought the best method would be use the date('w') as it will give the days in order. I just wanted to see how you guys would do it. Quite like to use 1 filed on MySql to store the dates available to make things neater.

[dihan]

Would I be able to do it by having the var as the following

$days = 2356

maybe just take each single digit and converting into the day so

2 = Tuesday
3 = Wednesday
5 = Friday
6 = Saturday

Looping that somehow and creating the drop down menu?
So if I were to add the other days (0, 1 and 4 in this case) it will still do it.

[dihan]

bump anyone?

[harrisonad]

use this approach:

PHP Code:

echo "<select>";



$weekdays = array(0,'sunday','monday','tuesday','wednesday','thursday','friday','saturday');



for($day=1;$day<=7;$day++)

   echo "<option value=$day>$weekdays[week]</option>";



echo "</select>"; 

if that ain't enough, lemme know...

[dihan]

Hi

it dont seem to work. can you tell me how to use that in order select the diffrent days from the array?

thanks

[dihan]

ok. I had a shot the best way i know how and it kind of works except i dont know why sunday ends up at the bottom after saturday?.

Also do you know a better way to do the exact same thing. this looks like a mess.

PHP Code:

    $string = '0123456';

    $num = strlen($string); 



    for($i=1;$i<=$num;$i++) 

    {

    $day_of_event = $string{$i};

    $diff = $day_of_event - date('w');

    $timestamp = strtotime("+" . $diff . " days");

    

    echo '<option VALUE="'. $timestamp .'">'. date('D jS M Y', $timestamp) .'</option>';

    } 

[dihan]

worked it out. was a silly mistake