PHP Year Month Day Drop Down Select

Years Months and Days Drop-down List using PHP Code. using PHP creates a Dynamic year months days selecting option list with the current month, day, and year.

PHP code for the year selection

Copy and paste the code where you want the drop-down list to appear

Year
PHP
<?php 
    $year_start  = 1940;
    $year_end = date('Y'); // current Year
    $user_selected_year = 1992; // user date of birth year

    echo '<select id="year" name="year">'."\n";
    for ($i_year = $year_start; $i_year <= $year_end; $i_year++) {
        $selected = ($user_selected_year == $i_year ? ' selected' : '');
        echo '<option value="'.$i_year.'"'.$selected.'>'.$i_year.'</option>'."\n";
    }
    echo '</select>'."\n";
?>

PHP code for the day selection list

Day
PHP
<?php
    $selected_day = date('d'); //current day

    echo '<select id="day" name="day">'."\n";
    for ($i_day = 1; $i_day <= 31; $i_day++) { 
        $selected = ($selected_day == $i_day ? ' selected' : '');
        echo '<option value="'.$i_day.'"'.$selected.'>'.$i_day.'</option>'."\n";
    }
    echo '</select>'."\n";
?>

PHP code for the month select list

Month
PHP
<?php
    $selected_month = date('m'); //current month

    echo '<select id="month" name="month">'."\n";
    for ($i_month = 1; $i_month <= 12; $i_month++) { 
        $selected = ($selected_month == $i_month ? ' selected' : '');
        echo '<option value="'.$i_month.'"'.$selected.'>'. date('F', mktime(0,0,0,$i_month)).'</option>'."\n";
    }
    echo '</select>'."\n";
?>

Name of months in local languages

Select the month name in the local language and change the code below to replace the month name variable. ($months_name = [])

PHP
$months_name = ["janvier", "février", "Mars", "avril", "Peut", "juin", "juillet", "août", "septembre", "octobre", "novembre", "décembre"];
PHP
<?php
    $selected_month = date('m'); //current month
    // replace and add new months list
    $months_name = ["janvier", "février", "Mars", "avril", "Peut", "juin", "juillet", "août", "septembre", "octobre", "novembre", "décembre"];

    echo '<select id="month" name="month">'."\n";
    for ($i_month = 1; $i_month <= 12; $i_month++) { 
        $selected = ($selected_month == $i_month ? ' selected' : '');
        echo '<option value="'.$i_month.'"'.$selected.'>'. $months_name[$i_month-1].'</option>'."\n";
    }
    echo '</select>'."\n";
?>

Create a drop-down list of Arabic number years using PHP

Year
PHP
<?php 
    function numberToArabic($number){ 
        $number = (string)$number;
        $arabic_num = ['٠','١','٢','٣','٤','٥','٦','٧','٨','٩'];
        $newValue = "";
        for ($i = 0; $i < strlen($number); $i++) {
            $newValue .= $arabic_num[$number[$i]];
        }
        return $newValue;
    }

    $year_start  = 1940;
    $year_end = date('Y'); // current Year
    $user_selected_year = 1992;

    echo '<select id="year" name="year">'."\n";
    for ($i_year = $year_start; $i_year <= $year_end; $i_year++) {
        $selected = ($user_selected_year == $i_year ? ' selected' : '');
        $arabic_year = numberToArabic($i_year); // numbers to arabic digits
        echo '<option value="'.$arabic_year.'"'.$selected.'>'.$arabic_year.'</option>'."\n";
    }
    echo '</select>'."\n";
?>
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HTML Day Month Year Drop-down JavaScript Day Month Year Drop-down

PHP functions for the day, month, year drop-down

Year select

PHP
<?php
function year_dropdow($selected_year=0, $year_start=1940) {
    $year_end = date('Y');
    $year_length = strlen((string) $year_start);
    if ($year_start > $year_end || $year_length < 4 || $year_length > 4) {
        return 'invalid year start '.$year_start;
    }
    $option = '';
    $option .='<select id="year" name="year">'."\n";
    $option .= '<option value="0">year</option>'."\n";
    for ($i_year = $year_start; $i_year <= $year_end; $i_year++) {
        $selected = ($selected_year == $i_year ? ' selected' : '');
        $option .= '<option value="'.$i_year.'"'.$selected.'>'.$i_year.'</option>'."\n";
    }
    $option .= '</select>'."\n";
    return $option;
}

// usage
// 2 Parameters
// 1 selected year (1992)
// 2 year start (1940)

echo year_dropdow(1992,1940);
?>

Month select

PHP
<?php
function month_dropdow($selected_month=0) {
    $option = '';
    $option .= '<select id="month" name="month">'."\n";
    $option .= '<option value="0">Month</option>'."\n";
    for ($i_month = 1; $i_month <= 12; $i_month++) { 
        $selected = ($selected_month == $i_month ? ' selected' : '');
        $option .= '<option value="'.$i_month.'"'.$selected.'>'. date('F', mktime(0,0,0,$i_month)).'</option>'."\n";
    }
    $option .= '</select>'."\n";
    return $option;
}

// usage
// 1 Parameters
// selected month 4

echo month_dropdow(4);
?>

Day select

PHP
<?php
function day_dropdow($selected_day=0) {
    $option = '';
    $option .= '<select id="day" name="day">'."\n";
    $option .= '<option value="0">Day</option>'."\n";
    for ($i_day = 1; $i_day <= 31; $i_day++) { 
        $selected = ($selected_day == $i_day ? ' selected' : '');
        $option .= '<option value="'.$i_day.'"'.$selected.'>'.$i_day.'</option>'."\n";
    }
    $option .= '</select>'."\n";
    return $option;
}

// usage
// 1 Parameters
// selected day 3

echo day_dropdow(3);
?>

PHP Class Object function code for the day, month, year drop-down

Create PHP file (date-dropdown.php) add this class function code

PHP
<?php
/**
 * drop down year month day
 * https://www.html-code-generator.com/php/drop-down/year-month-day
 */
class DateDropDown {
    // year
    public function year($selected_year=0, $year_start=1940) {
        $year_end = date('Y'); // current year
        $year_length = strlen((string) $year_start);
        if ($year_start > $year_end || $year_length < 4 || $year_length > 4) {
            return 'invalid year start '.$year_start;
        }
        $option = '';
        $option .='<select id="year" name="year">'."\n";
        $option .= '<option value="0">year</option>'."\n";
        for ($i_year = $year_start; $i_year <= $year_end; $i_year++) {
            $selected = ($selected_year == $i_year ? ' selected' : '');
            $option .= '<option value="'.$i_year.'"'.$selected.'>'.$i_year.'</option>'."\n";
        }
        $option .= '</select>'."\n";
        return $option;
    }
    // month
    public function month($selected_month=0) {
        $option = '';
        $option .= '<select id="month" name="month">'."\n";
        $option .= '<option value="0">Month</option>'."\n";
        for ($i_month = 1; $i_month <= 12; $i_month++) { 
            $selected = ($selected_month == $i_month ? ' selected' : '');
            $option .= '<option value="'.$i_month.'"'.$selected.'>'. date('F', mktime(0,0,0,$i_month)).'</option>'."\n";
        }
        $option .= '</select>'."\n";
        return $option;
    }
    // day 
    public function day($selected_day=0) {
        $option = '';
        $option .= '<select id="day" name="day">'."\n";
        $option .= '<option value="0">Day</option>'."\n";
        for ($i_day = 1; $i_day <= 31; $i_day++) { 
            $selected = ($selected_day == $i_day ? ' selected' : '');
            $option .= '<option value="'.$i_day.'"'.$selected.'>'.$i_day.'</option>'."\n";
        }
        $option .= '</select>'."\n";
        return $option;
    }
}

?>

usage class function

PHP
<?php
include './date-dropdown.php';

// usage
$dd = new DateDropDown();

// year = 2 Parameters
// 1 selected year (1992)
// 2 year start (1940)
echo $dd->year(1992, 1940);

// month = 1 Parameter. selected month (4)
echo $dd->month(4);

// day = 1 Parameter. selected day (3)
echo $dd->day(3);
?>
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