Dynamic Day of Week Selection

Question

I am searching for a dynamic day of week select.

So the code would recognise today is August 1st so... would work like so.

So code ( how I would like it to perform )

<select id="selectday" name="selectday" tabindex="13">
<option value="">Please select Preferred Day</option>
<option value="">Today Wed 1st Aug</option>
<option value="">Thursday 2nd Aug</option>
<option value="">Friday 3rd Aug</option>
<option value="">Saturday 4th Aug</option>
<option value="">Sunday 5th Aug</option>
</select>

Also would like if possible to factor, if current time is => 12.00pm then Today ( becomes unavailable as an option )

Does this make sense ?

Just wondered if anyone has seen anything like this and how to do it ? Prefer jquery but I suppose php would be fine.

I see plenty of date and time pickers specifically Trents https://github.com/trentrichardson/jQuery-Timepicker-Addon

But I need something very very simple and lightweight.

Only needs to show either 7 day block or 14 day block. Would prefer if Sunday was not an option , but that isnt a major issue.

Answer 1

Something like this should get you started... ( Tested example )

<select id="selectday" name="selectday" tabindex="13">
<?php
    $IncludeToday = date("G") < 12;
    for($i=($IncludeToday?0:1);$i<=7;$i++) {
        $TargetDate = strtotime(date("Y-m-d") . " +{$i} day");
        print "<option value=\"" . date("Y-m-d", $TargetDate) . "\">" . date("l jS F", $TargetDate) . "</option>\n";
    }
?>
</select>

This takes the current date in the format Ymd and uses strtotime() to parse an offset of + n days . Then, we output an option with the proper display format and a machine-readable ymd in the value.