Create A PHP Dropdown Menu From A For Loop?

I am trying to create a drop down menu with the options of 1,2,3 and 4. The below code is what I am using just now and the dropdown is empty. Any idea what I am doing wrong?

Solution 1:

You are not outputting the option tags. Try it like this:

<select name="years">

<?php 

for($i=1; $i<=4; $i++)
{

    echo "<option value=".$i.">".$i."</option>";
}
?> 
     <option name="years"> </option>   
</select> 

<input type="submit" name="submitYears" value="Year" />

Solution 2:

You basically use html without closing the php syntax.Your code should look like this:

 <select name="years">
    <?php 

    for($i=1; $i<=4; $i++)
     {
      ?>

     <option value="<?php echo $i;?>"><?php echo $i;?></option>
    <?php
        }
        ?> 
 <option name="years"> </option>   
    </select> 

        <input type="submit" name="submitYears" value="Year" />

Or are you trying to echo the option? In that case you forgot the echo statement:

 echo "<option value= ".$i.">".$i."</option>"; 

Solution 3:

This worked for me. It populates years as integers from the current year down to 1901:

        <select Name='ddlSelectYear'>
            <option value="">--- Select ---</option>

            <?php
            for ($x=date("Y"); $x>1900; $x--)
              {
                echo'<option value="'.$x.'">'.$x.'</option>'; 
              } 
            ?> 
        </select>

Solution 4:

You forgot something..

Add print / echo before "<option value=".$i.">".$i."</option>";

Solution 5:

place an echo in your loop to output your options.

echo "<option value=".$i.">".$i."</option>";

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