Date is Echoing without 'echo' command - php - php

Question

I have a form that is updated yearly, so a user inputs a date and other information then submits the form which gets stored in a database. When they come back a year later they do the same to overwrite the old records, the problem is is that when they come back the old date is being Echoed, which shouldn't happen. All of the other fields are blank which should happen. I'm not calling for the date to be echoed in the code but it still is.
Code for defining the date pulldown
// parameters: $fname - main name of field
// $date - actual date value from database
// $beginYear - first value in year list
// $endYear - last value in year list
// return: none
function make_date_pulldown($fname, $date, $beginYear, $endYear)
{
// read the date and break it up into $Year, $Month and $Day
// so that we can set the "SELECTED" in the option list
if ($date == ""){
// set some default values to be safe
$Year = 0;
$Month = 0;
$Day = 0;
} else {
$Year = (int) substr($date,0,4);
$Month = (int) substr($date,5,2);
$Day = (int) substr($date,8,2);
}
// need to build a table around these guys so that there won't
// be any word wrap... it's going to be a 1 row by 5 cols.
echo "<table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0>\n";
echo "<tr>\n";
// build month list
echo " <td><font class=bluetext face=verdana,arial size=-2>\n";
echo " <center>Month<br>\n";
echo "<select name='month_$fname'>\n";
echo " <option value='00'></option>\n";
for ($i=1;$i<=12;$i++){
printf (" <option value='%02d'",$i);
if ($i == $Month) {
printf (" SELECTED");
}
printf (">%02d</option>\n",$i);
}
echo "</select>\n";
echo " </center>\n";
echo " </td>\n";
echo " <td><font class=bluetext face=verdana,arial size=-2>\n";
echo "/";
echo " </td>\n";
// build day list
echo " <td><font class=bluetext face=verdana,arial size=-2>\n";
echo " <center>Day<br>\n";
echo "<select name='day_$fname'>\n";
echo " <option value='00'></option>\n";
for ($i=1;$i<=31;$i++){
printf (" <option value='%02d'",$i);
if ($i == $Day) {
printf (" SELECTED");
}
printf (">%02d</option>\n",$i);
}
echo "</select>\n";
echo " </center>\n";
echo " </td>\n";
echo " <td><font class=bluetext face=verdana,arial size=-2>\n";
echo "/";
echo " </td>\n";
// build year list
echo " <td><font class=bluetext face=verdana,arial size=-2>\n";
echo " <center>Year<br>\n";
echo "<select name='year_$fname'>\n";
echo " <option value='0000'></option>\n";
for ($i=$beginYear;$i<=$endYear;$i++){
printf (" <option value='%d'",$i);
if ($i == $Year) {
printf (" SELECTED");
}
printf (">%d</option>\n",$i);
}
echo "</select>\n";
echo " </center>\n";
echo " </td>\n";
echo "</tr>\n";
echo "</table>\n";
}
Code for the PHP form on the website
<u>Date Of Submittal</u><br>
<?php
$startYear = date("Y")-1;
$endYear = date("Y")+1;
make_date_pulldown("submitdate", $submitdate, $startYear, $endYear);
?>

Answer 1

Looks like you want to create a drop down menu based on year ....
$date = new DateTime();
//Years
echo makeSelect($date->format("Y")-1, $date->format("Y")+1,$date->format("Y"));
//Month
echo makeSelect(1, 12,$date->format("m"));
//Day
echo makeSelect(1, $date->format("t"),$date->format("d"));
Function Used
function makeSelect($start, $end, $default = null) {
$content = "<select>";
$range = range($start, $end);
$selected = "";
foreach ( $range as $value ) {
$selected = ($default == $value) ? "selected" : null;
$content .= sprintf('<option value="%s" %s>%1$s</option>', $value, $selected);
}
$content .= "</select>";
return $content;
}

Answer 2

Figured it out, in my get_() function to call the database table I was reading the row for the submitdate and it was pulling and displaying the date based on that command and the function for make_date_pulldown.
Here is what that function looked like (obviously trimmed down):
<?
function get_submit($id, &$submitdate)
{
$query = "select * from submit where id = $id";
$result = mysql_query($query);
if ($result) {
$total_rows = mysql_numrows($result);
} else { $total_rows = 0; }
if ($total_rows > 0) {
$submitdate = trim(mysql_result($result, "", "submitdate"));
} else {
$submitdate = "";
$found = 1;
}
}
?>