title: PHP Get selected Values on a drop down list
body: <p>I have this script that displays the year, month and day on a drop down.</p>
  
  <p>my question is: how do I get the selected values in the format of d-m-y?</p>
  
  <p>let's say if i will have a button to get the current selected values and display on a textbox. how would i do it?</p>
  
  <p>any ideas are greatly appreciated. Thank you.</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;html&gt;
      &lt;body&gt;
  &lt;?php
      $months = array(
              'January', 
              'February', 
              'March', 
              'April', 
              'May', 
              'June',
              'July', 
              'August', 
              'September', 
              'October', 
              'November',
              'December'
          );
      $weekday = array(
              'Sunday',
              'Monday',
              'Tuesday',
              'Wednesday',
              'Thursday',
              'Friday',
              'Saturday'
          );
      $days = range(1,31);
      $years = range (2010, 2020);
  
      $currentDay = date('d');
      $currentMonth = date('F');
      $currentYear = date('Y');
  
      echo "&lt;select name='weekday'&gt;";
      foreach($days as $valued) {
  
          if($valued == $currentDay)
          { 
              $default = 'selected="selected"'; 
              echo '&lt;option '.$default.' value="'.$valued.'"&gt;'.$valued.'&lt;/option&gt;\n';
          } else {
              $default='';
              echo '&lt;option '.$default.' value="'.$valued.'"&gt;'.$valued.'&lt;/option&gt;\n';
          }
          } 
      echo '&lt;/select&gt;&amp;nbsp;';
          echo "&lt;select name='month'&gt;";
          foreach($months as $valuem) {
              if($valuem==$currentMonth)
          { 
              $default1 = 'selected="selected"';
              echo '&lt;option '.$default1.' value="'.$valuem.'"&gt;'.$valuem.'&lt;/option&gt;\n';
          } else {
              $default1 = '';    
              echo '&lt;option '.$default1.' value="'.$valuem.'"&gt;'.$valuem.'&lt;/option&gt;\n';
          }
  
      } 
          echo '&lt;/select&gt; &amp;nbsp; ';
          echo "&lt;select name='year'&gt;";
  
          foreach ($years as $valuey) {
  
      if($valuey == $currentYear)
      { 
         $default2 = 'selected="selected"';
         echo '&lt;option '.$default2.' value="'.$valuey.'"&gt;'.$valuey.'&lt;/option&gt;\n';
      } else {
             $default2 = '';
             echo '&lt;option '.$default2.' value="'.$valuey.'"&gt;'.$valuey.'&lt;/option&gt;\n';
      }
  
          }  
          echo '&lt;/select&gt; &amp;nbsp; ';
  ?&gt;
  
  
  &lt;/body&gt;
  &lt;/html&gt;
  </code></pre>