Date field shows {NAME} error instead of date - php/html - php

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Update:
It looks like it is very complicated as I have had many views but no comments, could someone tell me how to check through the array {NAME} to find where it loses it's content please?
Original question:
I have been debugging an older php script and this is the last bit where I am struggling. The date does not show up when I have the drop down list:
This is what the output is in HTML:
<select name="trans_date2_month" style="width: {WIDTH}" >
<option value="{VALUE}" {SELECTED}>{NAME}</option>
<option value="{VALUE}" {SELECTED}>{NAME}</option>
<option value="{VALUE}" {SELECTED}>{NAME}</option>
<option value="{VALUE}" {SELECTED}>{NAME}</option>
<option value="{VALUE}" {SELECTED}>{NAME}</option>
<option value="{VALUE}" {SELECTED}>{NAME}</option>
<option value="{VALUE}" {SELECTED}>{NAME}</option>
<option value="{VALUE}" {SELECTED}>{NAME}</option>
<option value="{VALUE}" {SELECTED}>{NAME}</option>
<option value="{VALUE}" {SELECTED}>{NAME}</option>
<option value="{VALUE}" {SELECTED}>{NAME}</option>
<option value="{VALUE}" {SELECTED}>{NAME}</option>
</select>
Could someone help to find out how to track back in php please? I am more than happy to give more code's but I didn't want to overload the first page.
This was generated by the following code:
<!--S:DateSelectOption-->
<option value="{VALUE}" {SELECTED}>{NAME}</option>
<!--E:DateSelectOption-->
How to find {value} and {name}? - (please don't say that the search bar will help - I have done it:)
Update:
case "year":
if ($field["fields"]["year"]["empty"] == "true") {
$years[0] = "--" ;
}
for ($i = $field["fields"]["year"]["from"] ; $i <= $field["fields"]["year"]["to"] ; $i++ )
$years[$i] = $i;
$current_field .= $html->FormSelect(
$field["name"]."_year" ,
$years ,
$this->templates ,
"DateSelect",
$year_selected ,
array() ,
array("DISABLED" => ($field["fields"]["year"]["editable"] == "false") ? "DISABLED" : "")
);
$current_field .= $val["separator"];
break;
Update II:
A little bit more code, after searching for name... as a bad habit...
function HNDCData($parser,$cdata) {
$cdata = str_replace("[amp]","&",$cdata);
//echo "<br>" . $cdata;
// create the proper tree node if NAME attribute is set
if ($this->attr["NAME"] != "")
$this->tags[count($this->tags) - 1] = $this->attr["NAME"];
// cleanup cdata
$cdata = trim($cdata);
//$cdata = preg_replace("/(\015\012)|(\015)|(\012)/","",$cdata);
// only parse if cdata not void
if ($cdata != "") {
//print_r($this->attr);
//echo "<br>" . $cdata;
// prepare dynamic code
foreach ($this->tags as $key => $val)
$code[] = "\"" . strtolower($val) . "\"";
// build code
$code = "\$this->vars[" . implode("][",$code) . "] = \"" . $cdata . "\";";
// and finally execute
eval($code);
}
}
Update:
I have changed the for loop to numbers rather than variables but no difference.
for ($i = 2004 ; $i <= 2050 ; $i++ )