Year Birth? Interesting PHP Issue

Many times, I noticed that when a user is registering, the web-site doesn't have many years of birth. It does have the necessary ones to choose from. How can I do it using the PHP?

It'd be easier to just give them a text field where they can just type out their birth year. But i would expect the PHP code to generate dozens of birth years to be similar to this:

<?phpecho "<select>";for ($year = startingYear(); $year < currentYear(); $year++)	echo "<option value=\"$year\">$year</option>";echo "</select>";?>

If you want a certain age limit, then have currentYear() subtract the age you want from the current year.

reviewing truefusion's code:

<select name="year" id="year">	<?php for($i=date("Y"); $i<=date("Y")+2; $i++)			  if($year == $i)				echo "<option value='$i' selected>$i</option>";			else				echo "<option value='$i'>$i</option>";	?></select>