Add selectMonth, selectYear, selectRange methods to FormBuilder

[JeffreyWay]

For issue #1502.

Haven't yet done localization.

[JoostK]

PHP 5.3 please, Jeffrey :)

[JeffreyWay]

Gah. :) Dang muscle memory.

[taylorotwell]

Ported this to 4.0 branch. Hopefully you still love me :)

[JeffreyWay]

haha.

Just spent five minutes looking for an old man shaking his fist meme...but gave up. So take that.

[JosephSilber]

As it stands, the selectYear method serves no purpose whatsoever; it has the exact same signature as selectRange, with the same semantics.

I think the following would be much better:

public function selectYear($name, $years = 6, $selected = null, $options = array())
{
    $year = date('Y');

    return $this->selectRange($name, $year, $year + $years, $selected, $options);
}

Its usage would then be much simpler, namely:

echo Form::selectYear('year');

which would output the following:

<select name="year">
    <option value="2013">2013</option>
    <option value="2014">2014</option>
    <option value="2015">2015</option>
    <option value="2016">2016</option>
    <option value="2017">2017</option>
    <option value="2018">2018</option>
</select>

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If one requires the starting year to be different than the current year, selectRange is still perfectly capable of handling that.