Populate Birth Date Dropdown List Using CodeIgniter

In my previous post I uploaded a source code called “Populate Dropdown List Using CodeIgniter”. In that sample code, I used the country field to populate the value using the helper function.

This time, I’ll show you on how to populate a birth date field with three separate dropdown list.

Here’s the code to call the helper and populate the array with values from our function:

$this->load->helper('birthdate');


 


$this->data['birth_date_year'] = buildYearDropdown('birth_date_year', $this->input->post('birth_date_year'));


$this->data['birth_date_month'] = buildMonthDropdown('birth_date_month', $this->input->post('birth_date_month'));


$this->data['birth_date_day'] = buildDayDropdown('birth_date_day', $this->input->post('birth_date_day'));

And this is how you pass the value from the controller to the view:

echo $birth_date_day;


echo $birth_date_month;


echo $birth_date_year;