Date issue.

[wafasn]

Hi everyone,

I hope someone can help me with this:

I have web page where user can search for an event by date. the page contains a textbox linked to a calnedar. The user clicks on the calendar image, this one popups, the user select a date that goes to the text box.
What I want to do is to prevent user from typing a date directley to the textbox. I used the property "disabled=true" it works but when I send data to another page through the POST method, the variable event_date looks empty.

Thanks in advance.

[AstroTeg]

This is more of an HTML issue. But one approach might be to have the calendar populate a hidden field. The user can't touch that. But at the same time, you probably want to at least show the user what date they selected. You could put another text box in and populate it as well as the hidden field with the date. Or you could setup an innerHTML spot to update that (or do some DHTML tricks).

[LordShryku]

I went about this a while ago, and found it just better to validate the date from the box, rather than trying to prevent them from typing it in. It's also a bit more user friendly to let them type it in. If someone wants to see something from 6 months ago, they probably don't want to scroll through a calendar when the have an exact date in mind. Best bet would be to populate the text box with a date(use todays if there's no default), so they have a format which to abide by right in front of them. Then just validate the input upon submittion.
Example: This expects a date format of mm/dd/yyyy

function datecheck($date) {
   if(eregi("^[0-1]{1}[0-9]{1}\/[0-3]{1}[0-9]{1}\/[0-9]{4}", $date, $dt)) {
      $s = explode("/", $dt[0]);
      if(checkdate($s[0], $s[1], $s[2])) {
         return true;
      }
   }
   return false;
}

[wafasn]

Thanks to all of you guys, your function LordShryku is what I need.