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Hello,

I’m a bit of a newbie and stuck on the approach/syntax of how to do something pretty simple. I have a PHP for loop creating a bunch of options for a form drop-down. I cannot figure out how to either pull in the i iteration or get the right syntax to make this work inside an EE {if} statement.

I know it’s simple! Anyone point me in the right direction? Better way to approach this?

<select name="bday_y">

    <option value="" disabled>Year</option>
    <?php $date = date("Y");
    for($i=$date-18;$i>$date-100;$i--){
    echo '<option value="'.$i.'" {if bday_y == $i }selected="selected"{/if}> '.$i.' </option> ';
    }
    ?>

</select>

I know the main issue is with:

{if bday_y == $i }

I’ve tested everything else and it’s all working fine otherwise—just not pulling the $i inside the EE code!

Look here:

http://ellislab.com/expressionengine/user-guide/templates/php_templates.html

Thanks—this wasn’t the issue (it was just the syntax), but this was an important thing to know about as well!

Hi pcm,

To confirm, you are up and running again after correcting syntax?