How can one efficiently handle the selection of dates spanning 12 months before and after the current date in a dropdown list in PHP?

When creating a dropdown list for dates spanning 12 months before and after the current date in PHP, one efficient way to handle this is by using the DateTime class to generate the range of dates. By calculating the start and end dates based on the current date, you can then loop through each date within the range and add them to the dropdown list. 

// Get the current date
$currentDate = new DateTime();

// Calculate the start and end dates
$startDate = (new DateTime())->modify('-12 months');
$endDate = (new DateTime())->modify('+12 months');

// Initialize an array to store the dates
$dates = array();

// Loop through each date and add it to the array
while ($startDate <= $endDate) {
    $dates[] = $startDate->format('Y-m-d');
    $startDate->modify('+1 day');
}

// Create the dropdown list
echo '<select>';
foreach ($dates as $date) {
    echo '<option value="' . $date . '">' . $date . '</option>';
}
echo '</select>';

Keywords

PHP date dropdown list date range efficiency

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