WANTED: Calendar Control/Date Picker

Joseph_Sliker

Hi;

I've got a motley bunch of users that simply will never master or comply with proper date formatting when entering data, so I'm trying to develop some calendar/event entry type pages and I would like to have a calendar control in a submit form so users (data submitters) could pick the intended date simply by clicking on it. I've been searching around the web and have not found anything related to php. (lots of .asp, .net, and Java stuff...but I need to simplify my life).

Actually, what I probably need is code for a custom HTML form control.

I'd like the calendar control to come up with the current month...say based on the system date...

September 2003
SU MO TU WE TH FR SA
01 02 03 04 05 06
07 08 09 10 11 12 13
etc. etc. etc.

but give the user the option of clicking ahead to future months for longer-range planning. Then he/she could click on a specific date (which would be stored/posted as $EVENTDATE or something like that.

Can anyone point me to some html code or a php script that would help me construct such a beast? I've looked at the code library here and it's hard to tell if any of those items are good for this type of thing.

Thanks

SpanKie

There are plenty of free JS/DHTML date pickers available on the web for use. I would recommend searching though google for javascript popup calendars or visit a script site such has hotscripts.com.

Unless you plan on building one of your own! 😃

Joseph_Sliker

Thanks for your reply, but please pardon my ignorance on the following issues:

My users will be accessing the pages in question via Macs and PCs of various vintage with (in many cases) randomly updated browsers of various types that may or may not have various plug-ins installed.

I know that the server I can use has a reasonably current installation of PHP, but I don't know about Java, DHTML, etc. (honestly, I don't know enough about this stuff to understand if we are talking about server side, middleware, client/browser or whatever...) My ability to get the server administrators to enable stuff on their end is not what I wish it were. I'm lucky PHP and MySQL were already there.

So I was hoping for something that would assume nothing other than plain-vanilla HTML or PHP.

If you or anyone could point me to a couple specifics in date-pickers, I'd appreciate it.

SpanKie

JS (JavaScript/DHTML) requires no plugins ... majority of standard browsers today work no problem with the Calendars I've seen on Hotscripts .. there are even PHP calendars available. Do some searching around over there ... good luck.

Joseph_Sliker

Thanks for nudging me back to search the web. I found:

http://www.hotscripts.com/Detailed/18777.html

This worked once I figured out how to "call_user_func" (see, I'm really, really untrained with this stuff). It's not quite what I wanted, but will do for the moment.

I still hope to find something that comes up looking more like a clickable calendar page, though.