default value in option

Question

I have created an html form, and in it I have options containing the days of the month. The problem comes when I want to set today's date as selected when loading it on the page. I have this code but it doesn't work, and just shows today and the other days of the month are gone! $day1 is date of today by date function.

<select id="day" name="day">   

<?php  for ($i=1 ; $i<32 ; $i++){
    if($i == $day1){?>
        <option value="<?php echo $i ?>" selected> <?php echo $i ?></option>
    <?php}else{ ?>
        <option value="<?php echo $i ?>"  > <?php echo $i ?></option>
    <?php }} ?>
</select>

Answer 1

Try to add a space between the PHP opening tag and "}else{".This works for me:

<?php
$day1=date('d');
?>

<select id="day" name="day">   

<?php  for ($i=1 ; $i<32 ; $i++){
    if($i == $day1){?>
        <option value="<?php echo $i; ?>" selected> <?php echo $i; ?></option>
    <?php }else{ ?>
        <option value="<?php echo $i; ?>"  > <?php echo $i; ?></option>
    <?php }} ?>
</select>

Actually i can't find any information about this in the documentation, other than an user contribution:

I would like to stress out that the opening tag is "<?php[whitespace]", not just "<?php".

Answer 2

its easy possible with inline IF + echo and dot operator

<select id="day" name="day">   
<?php  
    $day1=date('d');
    for ($i=1 ; $i<32 ; $i++){
            echo '<option value="'.$i.'" '. ($i == $day1  ? 'selected' : '')  . '>'.$i.'</option>';
    }
?>
</select>

Answer 3

Other days are gone because you didnt echo it out.

<select id="day" name="day">   
<?php $day1=date('d'); ?> 
<?php  for ($i=1 ; $i<32 ; $i++){
    if($i === $day1){?>
        <option value="<?php echo $i ?>" selected> <?php echo $i ?></option>
    <?php }else{ ?>     
        <?php echo '<option value="'.$i.'">'.$i.'</option>'; ?>
    <?php }} ?>
</select>