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Cameron
Cameron

Reputation: 28783

CakePHP: Date field with default values

I'm using CakePHP 2.1 and have a date field to get a users date of birth:

e.g.

echo $this->Form->input('Profile.dob', array('label' => 'Date of Birth'
                                        , 'dateFormat' => 'DMY'
                                        , 'empty' => array('DATE','MONTH','YEAR')
                                        , 'minYear' => date('Y') - 110
                                        , 'maxYear' => date('Y') - 0));

As you can see I have tried to set the default values using an array, however it just makes them all have a default value of DATE. How do I get it so that each of the dropdowns has the correct value?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 10790

Answers (6)

Dashrath
Dashrath

Reputation: 2189

I implemented it like this

echo $this->Form->dateTime('dob', 'DMY','', array('value'=>'1987-02-12','empty'=>false,'label'=>'','minYear'=>date('Y')-60,'maxYear'=>date('Y')-15));

'value' attribute has been added after 2.0 api of cakephp and 'selected' is remove

2.0 updates $selected parameter removed

The $selected parameter was removed from several methods in FormHelper. All methods now support a $attributes['value'] key now which should be used in place of $selected. This change simplifies the FormHelper methods, reducing the number of arguments, and reduces the duplication that $selected created. The effected methods are:

FormHelper::select()
FormHelper::dateTime()
FormHelper::year()
FormHelper::month()
FormHelper::day()
FormHelper::hour()
FormHelper::minute()
FormHelper::meridian()

Upvotes: 0

Abid Hussain
Abid Hussain

Reputation: 7762

<?php echo $this->Form->input('birth_dt', array( 'label' => 'Date of birth'
        , 'dateFormat' => 'DMY'
        , 'minYear' => date('Y') - 70
        , 'maxYear' => date('Y') - 18 ));
?>

//OR

<?php
echo $this->Form->year('Profile.dob', date('Y') - 100, date('Y') - 13, array('empty' => "YEAR"));
echo $this->Form->month('Profile.dob', array('empty' => "MONTH"));
echo $this->Form->day('Profile.dob', array('empty' => 'DAY'));
?>

Upvotes: 3

ADmad
ADmad

Reputation: 8100

The feature you want is now implemented and will be available in next release. Currently you can checkout the master branch from github to get this patch. Check the test cases in linked commit for usage example. If you are currently using cakephp 2.1, read the 2.1 to 2.2 migration guide on the manual as the master branch is the 2.2 dev branch.

Upvotes: 5

Krishna
Krishna

Reputation: 1540

I have checked this It will give same output which is required : This code will generate same dropdown box with given default value and the post data will be same : 

echo $this->Form->day('Profile.dob', array('empty'=>'Day'));
echo $this->Form->month('Profile.dob', array('empty'=>'Month'));
echo $this->Form->year('Profile.dob', 1950, date('Y'),array('empty'=>'Year'));

Upvotes: 4

jack
jack

Reputation: 473

<?php
echo $form->input('date', array(
'type'  => 'date',
'label' => 'Date',
'empty' => TRUE,
'minYear' => 2000,
'dateFormat' => 'DMY',
'maxYear' => date('Y'),
'minYear' => date('Y') - 10
# default order m/d/y

));
?>

Its woking like charm

EDIT:-(You can do this with simple jquery code) In case you want customised date empty value ADD this jquery script in you header with jquery.js included.

<script type="text/javascript">     

        // var valid=true;

        jQuery(document).ready( function() {

            $("#dateDay option:first").text('DAY');
            $("#dateMonth option:first").text('MONTH');
            $("#dateYear option:first").text('YEAR');


        });




</script>

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change id #dateDay, #dateMonth, #dateYear with your option field id....You can customise this making it work for every cakephp-date field.

Upvotes: 3

mogelbrod
mogelbrod

Reputation: 2306

It's a bit of a hack and quite ugly, but since the empty option doesn't appear to support multiple values it's probably the easiest solution - unless you want to rewrite the whole dateTime() function. str_replace unfortunately doesn't allow limiting the number of replacements, which is why we have to resort to preg_replace.

$placeholder = '[RandomStringWhichDoesNotAppearInTheMarkup]';

$out = $this->Form->input('Profile.dob', array('label' => 'Date of Birth'
                                            , 'dateFormat' => 'DMY'
                                            , 'empty' => $placeholder
                                            , 'minYear' => date('Y') - 110
                                            , 'maxYear' => date('Y') - 0));

$escapedPlaceholder = preg_quote($placeholder, '/');
$out = preg_replace("/$escapedPlaceholder/", 'DATE', $out, 1);
$out = preg_replace("/$escapedPlaceholder/", 'MONTH', $out, 1);
$out = preg_replace("/$escapedPlaceholder/", 'YEAR', $out, 1);

echo $out;

Upvotes: 6

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