title: Simplifying a drop down form input for date: day month year <html>
body: <p>There are 29+ days in a month, I am creating a form using select and option.  But this means I will need 31 options for day, 12 for month and a bunch more for the year.</p>
  
  <p>Is there a better way to do it?  I'm not looking for plug-ins, I am trying to make some tidy code to replace some old and messy code.  Can I use a PHP for loop? And how would I go about doing this?  What would it look like (in terms of mixing up the PHP and HTML variables and functions)?</p>