Creating A Simple Date of Birth Dropdown Menu Using PHP/HTML

Submitted by razormist on Monday, December 19, 2016 - 17:22.

In this tutorial, we'll create a simple date of birth dropdown menu. The PHP for loop handles the loop-related statement (Initialize, Conditional, Increment or Decrement) For Month: Syntax The following syntax display the select element for month

<select name = "month">
        <option>Month</option>
        <?php
                for($month = 1; $month <= 12; $month++)
                echo"<option value = '".$month."'>".$month."</option>";
        ?>
</select>

Output loops

For Day: Syntax The following syntax display the select element for day

<select name = "day">
        <option>Day</option>
        <?php
                for($day = 1; $day <= 31; $day++){
                       echo "<option value = '".$day."'>".$day."</option>";
                }
        ?>
</select>

Output loops

For Year: Syntax The following syntax display the select element for year

<select name = "year">
        <option>Year</option>
        <?php
                $y = date("Y", strtotime("+8 HOURS"));
                for($year = 1950; $y >= $year; $y--){
                        echo "<option value = '".$y."'>".$y."</option>";
                }
        ?>
</select>

Output loops

I hope that this tutorial help you to your project and future projects. Enjoy Coding!!!

Creating A Simple Date of Birth Dropdown Menu Using PHP/HTML

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