Days Of Week Dropdown

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);
?>

DEMONSTRATION

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