[FX.php List] Strange problem

[Joel Shapiro]

Another thought is to look at the generated <select> code in IE6 and  
see if you can see anything odd in that.  Does it look just like it  
would if you hard-coded the whole thing?

-Joel


On Aug 25, 2008, at 11:12 AM, Joel Shapiro wrote:

> Hey Bob
>
> What do you see in IE6 instead of what you expect?
>
> In my experience, the place that IE6 is most challenging is with  
> CSS.  Try removing the id="select2" to see what the raw <select>  
> comes out like.  If that looks OK, then look at the style of  
> select2.  If that doesn't do anything, see if there's an element  
> containing the select (like a div) that has a style.
>
> HTH,
> -Joel
>
>
> On Aug 25, 2008, at 9:47 AM, Bob Patin/Longterm Solutions wrote:
>
>> I have a page that shows pulldown menus of dates for a  
>> registration app; it works fine in Safari, IE 7, and Firefox, but  
>> not IE 6.
>>
>> When I put a static menu option into the code, it shows in IE6  
>> just fine, but for some reason, IE 6 doesn't like my formula:
>>
>> <select name="start_date" id="select2">
>> <?php
>> $start_date_time = strtotime($Date_StartRoomsAvailable);
>> $end_date_time = strtotime($Date_EndRoomsAvailable);
>> while ($start_date_time < $end_date_time){
>> 	$start_date_short = date("m/d/Y",$start_date_time);
>> 	$start_date_string = date("F d, Y",$start_date_time);
>> ?>
>> 	<option value="<?php echo $start_date_short; ?>" <?php if  
>> ($start_date_short == $Date_Arrival){ ?>selected="selected" <? 
>> php } ?>><?php echo $start_date_string; ?></option>
>> 	<?php
>> 	$start_date_time = $start_date_time + 86400;
>> }
>> ?>
>> </select>
>>
>> What I'm doing is this:
>>
>> I take the start date and the end date; so long as the start date  
>> is less than the end date, I show it as a menu option; I add 86400  
>> to it (it's translated into time so I can do math with it) each  
>> time thru the loop.
>>
>> This works perfectly except in IE 6; shouldn't IE6 perform the  
>> same since the PHP gets done on the server and not in the browser?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Bob Patin
>> Longterm Solutions
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