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Reputation: 2042

Form datetime select field in Laravel 4.1

My model has an event_datetime field which I want to set on the form using datetime select fields. Rails has datetime_select which outputs the following and saves to a MySQL datetime column.

datetime select

Must default to the current date and work on a shared add/edit form.

No javascript datepickers please.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2184

Answers (1)

Andreyco
Andreyco

Reputation: 22872

Add this to you

{{ Form::datetime('event_date') }}

And place this macro into some autoloaded file (or view file)

Form::macro('datetime', function($name) {
    $years = value(function() {
        $startYear = (int) date('Y');
        $endYear = $startYear - 5;
        $years = ['' => 'year'];
        for($year = $startYear; $year > $endYear; $year--) {
            $years[ $year ] = $year;
        };
        return $years;
    });

    $months = value(function() {
        $months = ['' => 'month'];
        for($month = 1; $month < 13; $month++) {
            $timestamp = strtotime(date('Y'). '-'.$month.'-13');
            $months[ $month ] = strftime('%B', $timestamp);
        }
        return $months;
    });

    $days = value(function() {
        $days = ['' => 'day'];
        for($day = 1; $day < 32; $day++) {
            $days[ $day ] = $day;
        }
        return $days;
    });

    $hours = value(function() {
        $hours = ['' => 'hour'];
        for($hour = 0; $hour < 24; $hour++) {
            $hours[ $hour ] = $hour;
        }
        return $hours;
    });

    $minutes = value(function() {
        $minutes = ['' => 'minute'];
        for($minute = 0; $minute < 60; $minute++) {
            $minutes[ $minute ] = $minute;
        }
        return $minutes;
    });

    return Form::select($name.'[year]', $years) .
        Form::select($name.'[month]', $months) .
        Form::select($name.'[day]', $days) . ' - ' .
        Form::select($name.'[hour]', $hours) .
        Form::select($name.'[minute]', $minutes);
});

Upvotes: 5

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