HTML select option selected does not work - php

Question

I want to set the current date by default but it works only on year's select (the last one).
I wouldn't like to use javascript in this case. Just html and php.
I have already tried "selected='selected'" and "autocomplete=off" as shown in different other posts.
Here my code
<form id="form-orders-date" onsubmit="selectOrdersDate();">
<select id="orders-day">
<?php
for ($i=1; $i <= 31; $i++) {
if (sprintf('%02d', $i) == date("d")) {
echo "<option value=\"".sprintf('%02d', $i)."\" selected>".sprintf('%02d', $i)."</option>";
}
else{
echo "<option value=\"".sprintf('%02d', $i)."\">".sprintf('%02d', $i)."</option>" ;
}
}
?>
</select>
<select id="orders-month">
<?php
for ($i=1; $i <= 12; $i++) {
if (sprintf('%02d', $i) == date("m")) {
echo "<option value=\"".sprintf('%02d', $i)."\" selected>".sprintf('%02d', $i)."</option>";
}
else{
echo "<option value=\"".sprintf('%02d', $i)."\">".sprintf('%02d', $i)."</option>" ;
}
}
?>
</select>
<select id="orders-year">
<?php
for ($i=2012; $i <= 2020; $i++) {
if (sprintf('%02d', $i) == date("Y")) {
echo "<option value=\"".sprintf('%02d', $i)."\" selected>".sprintf('%02d', $i)."</option>";
}
else{
echo "<option value=\"".sprintf('%02d', $i)."\">".sprintf('%02d', $i)."</option>" ;
}
}
?>
</select>
<input type="submit" value="OK" />
</form>
here the plain HTML when the PHP has been run:
<form id="form-orders-date" onsubmit="selectOrdersDate();">
<select id="orders-day">
<option value="01">01</option>
<option value="02" selected>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>
<option value="13">13</option>
<option value="14">14</option>
<option value="15">15</option>
<option value="16">16</option>
<option value="17">17</option>
<option value="18">18</option>
<option value="19">19</option>
<option value="20">20</option>
<option value="21">21</option>
<option value="22">22</option>
<option value="23">23</option>
<option value="24">24</option>
<option value="25">25</option>
<option value="26">26</option>
<option value="27">27</option>
<option value="28">28</option>
<option value="29">29</option>
<option value="30">30</option>
<option value="31">31</option>
</select>
<select id="orders-month">
<option value="01">01</option>
<option value="02">02</option>
<option value="03" selected>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>
<select id="orders-year">
<option value="2012">2012</option>
<option value="2013">2013</option>
<option value="2014">2014</option>
<option value="2015">2015</option>
<option value="2016">2016</option>
<option value="2017" selected>2017</option>
<option value="2018">2018</option>
<option value="2019">2019</option>
<option value="2020">2020</option>
</select>
<input type="submit" value="OK" />
</form>

Answer 1

This is the code you are looking for
Remember to use single quotes (') when including double quotes inside the PHP echo or else if using double quotes use " inside the outer double quotes.
<form id="form-orders-date" onsubmit="selectOrdersDate();">
<select id="orders-day">
<?php
for ($i=1; $i <= 31; $i++) {
if ($i == date("d")) {
echo '<option value="'.$i.'" selected>'.$i.'</option>';
}
else{
echo '<option value="'.$i.'">'.$i.'</option>';
}
}
?>
</select>
<select id="orders-month">
<?php
for ($i=1; $i <= 12; $i++) {
if ($i == date("m")) {
echo '<option value="'.$i.'" selected>'.$i.'</option>';
}
else{
echo '<option value="'.$i.'">'.$i.'</option>';
}
}
?>
</select>
<select id="orders-year">
<?php
for ($i=2012; $i <= 2020; $i++) {
if ($i == date("Y")) {
echo '<option value="'.$i.'" selected>'.$i.'</option>';
}
else{
echo '<option value="'.$i.'">'.$i.'</option>';
}
}
?>
</select>

Answer 2

Can you try like this.
<form id="form-orders-date" onsubmit="selectOrdersDate();">
<select id="orders-day">
<?php
for ($i=1; $i <= 31; $i++) {
if ($i == date("d")) {
echo "<option value='$i' selected='selected'>$i</option>";
} else {
echo "<option value='$i'>$i</option>";
}
}
?>
</select>
<select id="orders-month">
for ($i=1; $i <= 12; $i++) {
if ($i == date("m")) {
echo "<option value='$i' selected='selected'>$i</option>";
} else {
echo "<option value='$i'>$i</option>";
}
}
</select>
<select id="orders-year">
<?php
for ($i=2012; $i <= 2020; $i++) {
if ($i == date("Y")) {
echo "<option value='$i' selected='selected'>$i</option>";
} else {
echo "<option value='$i'>$i</option>";
}
}
?>
</select>
<input type="submit" value="OK" />
</form>

Answer 3

Here's a more compact way of achieving this:
<form id="form-orders-date" onsubmit="selectOrdersDate();">
<select id="orders-day">
<?php for ($d = 1; $d <= 31; $d++) { ?>
<option value="<?php echo $d; ?>" <?php if ($d == date('j')) { echo 'selected'; ?>><?php echo $d; ?></option>
<?php } ?>
</select>
<select id="orders-month">
<?php for ($m = 1; $m <= 12; $m++) { ?>
<option value="<?php echo $m; ?>" <?php if ($m == date('n')) { echo 'selected'; ?>><?php echo $m; ?></option>
<?php } ?>
</select>
<select id="orders-year">
<?php for ($y = 2012; $y <= 2020; $y++) { ?>
<option value="<?php echo $y; ?>" <?php if ($y == date('Y')) { echo 'selected'; ?>><?php echo $y; ?></option>
<?php } ?>
</select>
<input type="submit" value="OK" />
</form>

Answer 4

Have you tried autocomplete="off" for select? It works for me.

Answer 5

I know you said you tried this already, but your sample code doesn't show it. Here's how your tag should be formed:
<select>
<option value="01">01</option>
<option value="02" selected="selected">02</option>
<option value="03">03</option>
...
</select>
Your example above looks very different for the selected element. I'd suggest using whatever inspection tool is built into your web browser to see what exactly was rendered, and that will probably make it the solution obvious.
For reference, see:
Definition of select tag
Definition of option tag