Option value Not displaying in drop-down menu? - php

Question

I'm using a date range on a web page to aggregate MySQL data and present it based on the selected time frame. For some reason the values for each option in the drop-down menus are not displaying. Here's the PHP I'm using:
<select name="date1" title="<?=$date1 ?>">
<?php foreach($availableDates as $date) { ?>
<option value="<?=$date ?>"<?php if($date == $date1) { ?> selected="selected"<?php } ?><?=$date ?></option>
<?php } ?>
</select>
And here's the HTML output:
<option value="2015-01-03" selected="selected" 2015-01-03<="" option=""></option>
The weirdest part is this was working for the longest time and suddenly the dates in both menus vanished. Any ideas why?

Answer 1

This happened becuase you are missing the ending > of tag
Modified code:
<select name="date1" title="<?=$date1 ?>">
<?php foreach($availableDates as $date) { ?>
<option value="<?=$date ?>"<?php if($date == $date1) { ?> selected="selected"<?php } ?>>
<?=$date ?>
</option>
<?php } ?>
</select>

Answer 2

Your PHP snippet is missing a closing >:
<select name="date1" title="<?=$date1 ?>">
<?php foreach($availableDates as $date) { ?>
<option
value="<?=$date ?>"
<?php if($date == $date1) { ?> selected="selected"<?php } ?>
>
<?=$date ?>
</option>
<?php } ?>
</select>

Answer 3

Try this way also :
<select name="per1" id="per1">
<option selected="selected">Choose one</option>
<?php
foreach($names as $name) { ?>
<option value="<?= $name['name'] ?>"><?= $name['name'] ?></option>
<?php
} ?>
</select>
Now you can put your code here.

Answer 4

1. Add > tag closer after selected attribute
2. Remove shorthanded <?= ?> tag which is unwanted while you also using <?php ?>
<select name="date1" title="<?php print $date1; ?>">
<?php foreach($availableDates as $date) {
?><option value="<?php print $date; ?>"<?php if($date == $date1) { ?> selected="selected"<?php } ?>>
<?php print $date; ?>
</option>
<?php } ?>
</select>

Answer 5

I suggest this less error prone code.
$selHTML = '<select name="date1" title="'.$date1.'">';
foreach($availableDates as $date) {
$sel = ($date == $date1)?" selected":"";
$selHTML .= '<option value="'.$date.'"'.$sel.'>'.$date.'</option>';
}
$selHTML .= '</select>';
echo $selHTML;