Creating a Dynamic Date Filed

[Sue Roussie]

Hi,

This newbie needs some help. I have a drop down box that needs to
display 7 days worth of dates.

Example: Today is the 13th. The drop down box would display the dates
of: July 20, July 21, July 22, etc. The kicker also is that I need to
exclude Sundays.

Can this be done? And if so, how would I do it. My form is using a
simple cgi script to e-mail the results to a person.

Thanks,
Sue

 

[Jeff Thies]

Hi,

This newbie needs some help. I have a drop down box that needs to
display 7 days worth of dates.

Example: Today is the 13th. The drop down box would display the dates
of: July 20, July 21, July 22, etc. The kicker also is that I need to
exclude Sundays.

Can this be done? And if so, how would I do it.

This is not an html question, but this is an alt group so:

The local time function will give you this:

($sec,$min,$hour,$mday,$mon,$year,$wday,$yday,$isdst) =
localtime();

if($wday eq '0'){
print 'It\'s sunday';
}

The problem you will have is accounting for the different lengths of
months and accounting for leap year because your days will span months.

If you know some perl you can build this out of the "everything and the
kitchen sink" of perl modules:

<URL: http://www.cise.ufl.edu/~sbeck/DateManip.html >

That will even tell you if it is a holiday. There is a wide range of
date formatting available.

alt.perl may be a better group for you to sort this through.

Jeff





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