HTML select option selected does not work

I want to set the current date by default but it works only on year’s select (the last one).

I wouldn’t like to use javascript in this case. Just html and php.

I have already tried “selected=’selected'” and “autocomplete=off” as shown in different other posts.

Here my code

<form id="form-orders-date" onsubmit="selectOrdersDate();">
                    <select id="orders-day">
                        <?php 
                        for ($i=1; $i <= 31; $i++) {
                            if (sprintf('%02d', $i) == date("d")) {
                                echo "<option value="".sprintf('%02d', $i)."" selected>".sprintf('%02d', $i)."</option>";
                            }
                            else{
                                echo "<option value="".sprintf('%02d', $i)."">".sprintf('%02d', $i)."</option>" ;
                            }
                        } 
                        ?>
                    </select>
                    <select id="orders-month">
                        <?php 
                        for ($i=1; $i <= 12; $i++) {
                            if (sprintf('%02d', $i) == date("m")) {
                                echo "<option value="".sprintf('%02d', $i)."" selected>".sprintf('%02d', $i)."</option>";
                            }
                            else{
                                echo "<option value="".sprintf('%02d', $i)."">".sprintf('%02d', $i)."</option>" ;
                            }
                        } 
                        ?>
                    </select>
                    <select id="orders-year">
                        <?php 
                        for ($i=2012; $i <= 2020; $i++) {
                            if (sprintf('%02d', $i) == date("Y")) {
                                echo "<option value="".sprintf('%02d', $i)."" selected>".sprintf('%02d', $i)."</option>";
                            }
                            else{
                                echo "<option value="".sprintf('%02d', $i)."">".sprintf('%02d', $i)."</option>" ;
                            }
                        } 
                        ?>
                    </select>
                    <input type="submit" value="OK" />
</form>

here the plain HTML when the PHP has been run:

<form id="form-orders-date" onsubmit="selectOrdersDate();">
    <select id="orders-day">
        <option value="01">01</option>
        <option value="02" selected>02</option>
        <option value="03">03</option>
        <option value="04">04</option>
        <option value="05">05</option>
        <option value="06">06</option>
        <option value="07">07</option>
        <option value="08">08</option>
        <option value="09">09</option>
        <option value="10">10</option>
        <option value="11">11</option>
        <option value="12">12</option>
        <option value="13">13</option>
        <option value="14">14</option>
        <option value="15">15</option>
        <option value="16">16</option>
        <option value="17">17</option>
        <option value="18">18</option>
        <option value="19">19</option>
        <option value="20">20</option>
        <option value="21">21</option>
        <option value="22">22</option>
        <option value="23">23</option>
        <option value="24">24</option>
        <option value="25">25</option>
        <option value="26">26</option>
        <option value="27">27</option>
        <option value="28">28</option>
        <option value="29">29</option>
        <option value="30">30</option>
        <option value="31">31</option>
    </select>
    <select id="orders-month">
        <option value="01">01</option>
        <option value="02">02</option>
        <option value="03" selected>03</option>
        <option value="04">04</option>
        <option value="05">05</option>
        <option value="06">06</option>
        <option value="07">07</option>
        <option value="08">08</option>
        <option value="09">09</option>
        <option value="10">10</option>
        <option value="11">11</option>
        <option value="12">12</option>
    </select>
    <select id="orders-year">
        <option value="2012">2012</option>
        <option value="2013">2013</option>
        <option value="2014">2014</option>
        <option value="2015">2015</option>
        <option value="2016">2016</option>
        <option value="2017" selected>2017</option>
        <option value="2018">2018</option>
        <option value="2019">2019</option>
        <option value="2020">2020</option>
    </select>
    <input type="submit" value="OK" />
</form>

Answer

This is the code you are looking for Remember to use single quotes (‘) when including double quotes inside the PHP echo or else if using double quotes use ” inside the outer double quotes.

<form id="form-orders-date" onsubmit="selectOrdersDate();">
    <select id="orders-day">
      <?php
      for ($i=1; $i <= 31; $i++) {
        if ($i == date("d")) {
          echo '<option value="'.$i.'" selected>'.$i.'</option>';
        }
        else{
          echo '<option value="'.$i.'">'.$i.'</option>';
        }
      }
      ?>
    </select>
    <select id="orders-month">
      <?php
      for ($i=1; $i <= 12; $i++) {
        if ($i == date("m")) {
          echo '<option value="'.$i.'" selected>'.$i.'</option>';
        }
        else{
          echo '<option value="'.$i.'">'.$i.'</option>';
        }
      }
      ?>
    </select>
    <select id="orders-year">
      <?php
      for ($i=2012; $i <= 2020; $i++) {
        if ($i == date("Y")) {
          echo '<option value="'.$i.'" selected>'.$i.'</option>';
        }
        else{
          echo '<option value="'.$i.'">'.$i.'</option>';
        }
      }
      ?>
    </select>