I am looking for some advice on how to make a date select display only
valid days of the year. The standard date helper allows for you to
choose 31 days for every month of the year. Since not all months have
31 days this can lead to invalid date entries for scheduling.
I am thinking that an approach where I have a drop down for month and
then use AJAX or normal client side javascript to update a day drop down
is the way to do things. Has anyone released any code that does this?
Thank you,
Matthew M.
blog.mattmargolis.net
Matthew,
Have you considered using the date_box engine? The popup has the days
of month correct.
Regards,
Michael
Michael M. wrote:
Matthew,
Have you considered using the date_box engine? The popup has the days
of month correct.
Regards,
Michael
While interesting this does not quite meet my needs. I require a date
selector that is a drop down or calendar view, the whole text box entry
thing won’t fly for my current project.
Any other suggestions for date selectors that only show days that
actually exist?
Matthew M.
blog.mattmargolis.net
Hi Matthew,
date_box is a calendar view based on the dynarch js calendar! While it
is true it is surrounded by a text input field, you can easily disable
the field so that a user doesn’t type into it. The Calendar image goes
right next to the field, but you could change that too so that the
onclick of the field itself pops up the calendar. The calendar is very
nice looking and it is themed so you can change the look and feel if so
desired.
Anyway, just my suggestion. If you want to see a screenshot of the way
it looks then let me know and I’ll email you one privately. codeslush
at yahoo dot com
Note - I just made changes to date_box engine and posted an entry here
last night with the mod (very basic). The way it all works is fresh in
my head and would be happy to help you out.
Regards,
Michael