dynamicdate of birth drop down

[jrthor2]

I have a form that ask for your date of birth using 3 dropdown boxes. I want these boxes to get their values from a bean, so that I can use these methods elsewhere in my application. I need the month to to look like this:

<option value="01">January</option>

And I then need the list of days/years. The years should start from sy 1930 up to the current year.

Could someone please help me with creating these methods? I will be using these in a <h:SelectOneMenu> jsf component.

Thanks!!

[buntine]

You could write three methods.

import com.javaranch.common.JDate;
import java.util.Calendar;


<%
getDays()
{
for (int i=1; i<32; i++)
{
String strLabel = (String)i;
String strValue = strLabel;
%>
<f:selectItem itemLabel="<%=strLabel%>" itemValue="<%=strValue%>" />
<%
}
}
%>


getMonth()
{
for (int i=1; i<32; i++)
{
JDate monthDate = new JDate(2005, i, 1);
String strLabel = monthName.getMonthString();
String strValue = (String)i;
%>
<f:selectItem itemLabel="<%=strLabel%>" itemValue="<%=strValue%>" />
<%
}
}


<%
getDays()
{
Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance(TimeZone.getDefault());
int year = cal.get(Calendar.YEAR);
for (int i=1930; i<year; i++)
{
String strLabel = (String)i;
String strValue = strLabel;
%>
<f:selectItem itemLabel="<%=strLabel%>" itemValue="<%=strValue%>" />
<%
}
}
%>

Something like that should help out.

Regards.

[jrthor2]

for the getDays method, I get an error on this line:

String strLabel = (String)i;

That says "cannot cast from int to String.

[buntine]

Use this instead:

String strLabel = Integer.toString(i);

Regards.

[jrthor2]

sould I make these methods public void, public String??

[buntine]

public void getDays()
{
...
}