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hi i just have a drop down menu which consists of date i need to submit the values and parse those values into date is it possible to do that my code is as
<html>
<head>
<title>TESTING THE DATE</title>
</head>
<body>
<form action="insert10.php" method="post">
<select name="day">
//<option value="null" selected="selected"> </option>
<option value="1" >1</option>
<option value="2" >2</option>
<option value="3" >3</option>
<option value="4" >4</option>
<option value="5" >5</option>
<option value="6" >6</option>
<option value="7" >7</option>
<option value="8" >8</option>
<option value="9" >9</option>
<option value="10" >10</option>
<option value="11" >11</option>
<option value="12" >12</option>
<option value="13" >13</option>
<option value="14" >14</option>
<option value="15" >15</option>
<option value="16" >16</option>
<option value="17" >17</option>
<option value="18" >18</option>
<option value="19" >19</option>
<option value="20" >20</option>
<option value="21" >21</option>
<option value="22" >22</option>
<option value="23" >23</option>
<option value="24" >24</option>
<option value="25" >25</option>
<option value="26" >26</option>
<option value="27" >27</option>
<option value="28" >28</option>
<option value="29" >29</option>
<option value="30" >30</option>
<option value="31" >31</option>
</select>
<select name="month">
//<option value="null" selected="selected"> </option>
<option value="1">1</option>
<option value="2">2</option>
<option value="3">3</option>
<option value="4">4</option>
<option value="5">5</option>
<option value="6">6</option>
<option value="7">7</option>
<option value="8">8</option>
<option value="9">9</option>
<option value="10">10</option>
<option value="11">11</option>
<option value="12">12</option>
</select>
<select name="year">
//<option value="null" selected="selected"> </option>
<option value="1970">1970</option>
<option value="1971">1971</option>
<option value="1972">1972</option>
<option value="1973">1973</option>
<option value="1974">1974</option>
<option value="1975">1975</option>
<option value="1976">1976</option>
<option value="1977">1977</option>
<option value="1978">1978</option>
<option value="1979">1979</option>
<option value="1980">1980</option>
<option value="1981">1981</option>
<option value="1982">1982</option>
<option value="1983">1983</option>
<option value="1984">1984</option>
<option value="1985">1985</option>
<option value="1986">1986</option>
<option value="1987">1987</option>
<option value="1988">1988</option>
<option value="1989">1989</option>
<option value="1990">1990</option>
<option value="1991">1991</option>
<option value="1992">1992</option>
<option value="1993">1993</option>
<option value="1994">1994</option>
<option value="1995">1995</option>
<option value="1996">1996</option>
<option value="1997">1997</option>
<option value="1998">1998</option>
<option value="1999">1999</option>
<option value="2000">2000</option>
<option value="2001">2001</option>
<option value="2002">2002</option>
<option value="2003">2003</option>
<option value="2004">2004</option>
<option value="2005">2005</option>
<option value="2006">2006</option>
<option value="2007">2007</option>
<option value="2008">2008</option>
<option value="2009">2009</option>
<option value="2010">2010</option>
</select><br>
<input type="submit" value="SUBMIT">
</form>
</body>
</html>
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Jun 19th, 2007
first of all you dont have to hard code all your <OPTION>'s into your page. it would be much better if you create them dynamically then you would not need to update the years every year.

i.e.
PHP Syntax (Toggle Plain Text) 
  1. <select name="year">
  2. <?
  3. $count = 0;
  4. while ($count < [num of years you want to go back]) {
  5. $year = date("Y") - $count;
  6. print("<option value='" . $year . "'>" . $year . "</option>");
  7.  
  8. $count ++;
  9. }
  10. ?>
  11. </select>


then processing this is quite easy. just use a POST or GET method to post it to the 'insert10.php' page then convert the values using this

PHP Syntax (Toggle Plain Text) 
  1. <?
  2. $day = $_POST['day']; //if using GET use $_GET['day'];
  3. $month = $_POST['month'];
  4. $year = $_POST['year'];
  5.  
  6. $date = mktime(0, 0, 0, $month, $day, $year);
  7. // using the format mktime(hour, minute, second, month, day, year)

now $date contains your date and you may do with it as u wish hope this helps.
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