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# {html_select_date}

`{html_select_date}` is a custom function that creates date dropdowns. It can display any or all of year, month, and day. All parameters that are not in the list below are printed as name/value-pairs inside the `<select>` tags of day, month and year.

Attribute Name | Type | Required | Default | Description
--- | --- | --- | --- | ---
prefix | string | No | Date_ | What to prefix the var name with
time | timestamp/ YYYY-MM-DD | No | current time in unix timestamp or YYYY-MM-DD format | What date/time to use
start_year | string | No | current year | The first year in the dropdown, either year number, or relative to current year (+/- N)
end_year | string | No | same as start_year | The last year in the dropdown, either year number, or relative to current year (+/- N)
display_days | boolean | No | `TRUE` | Whether to display days or not
display_months | boolean | No | `TRUE` | Whether to display months or not
display_years | boolean | No | `TRUE` | Whether to display years or not
month_format | string | No | %B | What format the month should be in (strftime)
day_format | string | No | %02d | What format the day output should be in (sprintf)
day_value_format | string | No | %d | What format the day value should be in (sprintf)
year_as_text | boolean | No | `FALSE` | Whether or not to display the year as text
reverse_years | boolean | No | `FALSE` | Display years in reverse order
field_array | string | No | null | If a name is given, the select boxes will be drawn such that the results will be returned to PHP in the form of name[Day], name[Year], name[Month].
day_size | string | No | null | Adds size attribute to select tag if given
month_size | string | No | null | Adds size attribute to select tag if given
year_size | string | No | null | Adds size attribute to select tag if given
all_extra | string | No | null | Adds extra attributes to all select/input tags if given
day_extra | string | No | null | Adds extra attributes to select/input tags if given
month_extra | string | No | null | Adds extra attributes to select/input tags if given
year_extra | string | No | null | Adds extra attributes to select/input tags if given
field_order | string | No | MDY | The order in which to display the fields
field_separator | string | No | \n | String printed between different fields
month_value_format | string | No | %m | strftime() format of the month values, default is %m for month numbers.
year_empty | string | No | null | If supplied then the first element of the year's select-box has this value as it's label and "" as it's value. This is useful to make the select-box read "Please select a year" for example. Note that you can use values like "-MM-DD" as time-attribute to indicate an unselected year.
month_empty | string | No | null | If supplied then the first element of the month's select-box has this value as it's label and "" as it's value. . Note that you can use values like "YYYY--DD" as time-attribute to indicate an unselected month.
day_empty | string | No | null | If supplied then the first element of the day's select-box has this value as it's label and "" as it's value. Note that you can use values like "YYYY-MM-" as time-attribute to indicate an unselected day.

> Note: There is an useful php function on the date tips page for converting `{html_select_date}` form values to a timestamp.

Example 8-19. {html_select_date} Template code
    {html_select_date}
This will output:
    <select name="Date_Month">
    <option value="1">January</option>
    <option value="2">February</option>
    <option value="3">March</option>
      ..... snipped .....
    <option value="10">October</option>
    <option value="11">November</option>
    <option value="12" selected="selected">December</option>
    </select>
    <select name="Date_Day">
    <option value="1">01</option>
    <option value="2">02</option>
    <option value="3">03</option>
      ..... snipped .....
    <option value="11">11</option>
    <option value="12">12</option>
    <option value="13" selected="selected">13</option>
    <option value="14">14</option>
    <option value="15">15</option>
      ..... snipped .....
    <option value="29">29</option>
    <option value="30">30</option>
    <option value="31">31</option>
    </select>
    <select name="Date_Year">
    <option value="2006" selected="selected">2006</option>
    </select>

Example 8-20. {html_select_date} second example
    {* start and end year can be relative to current year *}
    {html_select_date prefix='StartDate' time=$time start_year='-5'
       end_year='+1' display_days=false}
With 2000 as the current year the output:
    <select name="StartDateMonth">
    <option value="1">January</option>
    <option value="2">February</option>
    .... snipped ....
    <option value="11">November</option>
    <option value="12" selected="selected">December</option>
    </select>
    <select name="StartDateYear">
    <option value="1995">1995</option>
    .... snipped ....
    <option value="1999">1999</option>
    <option value="2000" selected="selected">2000</option>
    <option value="2001">2001</option>
    </select>

See also `{html_select_time}`, `date_format`, `$smarty.now` and the date tips page.

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