title: Default value for drop down list in yii
body: <p>I have a static dropDownList which is simply a list of years. i want the default value to be the current year(im using the date() in php). How do i do this in yii?</p>
  
  <p>heres my dropDownList code:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;?php echo $form-&gt;dropDownList($model,'YEAR',
            array ('1990' =&gt; ... =&gt; '2020')
            );
  </code></pre>