How can PHP developers optimize their code to avoid repeating the selected day in a date select field?

To avoid repeating the selected day in a date select field, PHP developers can use a loop to generate the options for the select field and skip the selected day when iterating through the days of the month.

<select name="day">
    <?php
    $selected_day = 15; // Example selected day
    for ($day = 1; $day <= 31; $day++) {
        if ($day == $selected_day) {
            continue; // Skip the selected day
        }
        echo "<option value='$day'>$day</option>";
    }
    ?>
</select>