php loop

I have the code

<? $i=0; 

while ($i < 11){ 

?>

<option value="<? print date('n', strtotime('-1 Month')); ?>"> <? print date('M', strtotime('-1 Month')); ?></option>
<?

 $i++; 

}

?>
	

Code (markup):

i need to chage the print date('n', strtotime('-1 Month')); to not be -1 but be - i how do i do this seeing as i am already within the <? ?>

Thanks

 

worked it out

<option value="<? print date('n', strtotime('-'.$i.' Month')); ?>"> <? print date('M', strtotime('-'.$i.' Month')); ?></option>

 

strtotime('-' . $i . ' Month')

You could also compact the whole thing into a for loop:

<?php
for ( $i = 0; $i < 11; $i++ ) {
    $time = strtotime('-' . $i . ' Month');
    echo '<option value="', date('n',$time), '">', date('M',$time) ,'</option>';
}

PHP:

 

For another variation, this worked for me:

$i = 0; 

while ($i < 11){ 

 print '<option value="' . 
    date('n', strtotime("-$i Month")) . '">' . 
      date('M', strtotime("-$i Month")) . '</option>';
 $i++; 
}

PHP:

The output went from May to July, with the option value number matching number of the month, in that May==5 and January==1.

 

I would recommend you to get familiar with Smarty (smarty.php.net). It's a PHP template engine which allows you to separate HTML from PHP completely.
It's smarter than you think, so give some and read a little bit of manual.

I did some of my sites using it and never looked back to old methods (putting HTML in PHP code)!!!