i would like to let user enter their date of birth by providing list box for them to choose the year, month and date but i don't know how. So, i end up with the following code with is very long and uneffective. And for example, February only has 28/ 29 days but the user may choose 30 and 31 with my code.Is there a better way? Please provide me with the code. Thx.

D.O.B (yy, mm, day) <?php
           echo " <select name=\"empDOByear\" tabindex=\"6\" id=\"textbox\">";
            for($i=gmdate("Y"); $i>=1900 ; $i--)
            {
                echo "<option value=\"$i\" >$i </option>";
            }
            echo " </select>";
        ?>
        <select name="empDOBmonth" tabindex="7" id="textbox2">";
            <option value="01" >01</option>
            <option value="02" >02</option>
            <option value="03" >03</option>
            <option value="04" >04</option>
            <option value="05" >05</option>
            <option value="06" >06</option>
            <option value="07" >07</option>
            <option value="08" >08</option>
            <option value="09" >09</option>
            <option value="10">10</option>
            <option value="11">11</option>
            <option value="12">12</option>
        </select>
        <?php
        echo " <select name=\"empDOBday\" tabindex=\"8\" id=\"textbox3\">";
            for($i=1; $i<=31; $i++)
            {
                echo "<option value=\"$i\" >$i </option>";
            }
            echo " </select>";
        ?><br><br>

Besides, if at another page i display the value of date retrieved from a query, how did i select the retrieved value while displaying other as well values to let the user update or change the data ?

I would suggest using JavaScript to dynamically add/remove days based on the month selection.

PHP could do this for you but you'd have a more complicated program.

: )
Rich

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PHP can do it for you. Use this piece of code to get number of days of the selected month of the selected year (you might want to make the form to submit to itself first as the user selects a year and a month) :

<PHP>

$n_days_of_month = date("t", mktime(0,0,0, $month, date(d), $year));

</PHP>

which make your for loop became:
<PHP>
for($i=1; $i<=$n_days_of_month; $i++)
{
   echo "<option value=\"$i\" >$i </option>";
}
</PHP>

Hope that give you an idea... :)


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