Date (Year) Select

I need to create a long list of years in a Select. I really don't wan't to have to do this by hand. I have tried the following, but keep getting an invalid options array error.

$my_date=date("Y");
$first_year = $my_date-3;
$yearEnd=$my_date;

$inter_date = "array(";
//$inter .= "\"\"=>\"--\",";

for($year=$first_year; $year <= $yearEnd; $year++) {
$inter_date .= "\"$year\"=>\"$year\",";
}
$inter_date .= ")";

The above appears to create the array. Then I do the following:

$accident->AddInput(array(
"TYPE"=>"select",
"NAME"=>"year",
"ID"=>"year",
"VALUE"=>"2003",
"SELECTED"=>"2003",
"SIZE"=>1,
"OPTIONS"=>$inter_date,
));

What am I doing wrong or how can this be done in another way?

Thanks.

No, you are not creating an array but rather a string with PHP code to define an array.

Your code would work better like this:

$my_date=date("Y");
$first_year = $my_date-3;
$yearEnd=$my_date;

$inter_date = array(
// ""=>"--"
);

for($year=$first_year; $year <= $yearEnd; $year++) {
$inter_date[$year]=$year
}

Yes, thank you. That does work quite well.