php or jquery minicalendar/datepicker

Dereksdontrun

Hi Happy New Year to all,

On my page i want to return a record based on date. As there are a number of records with differing dates. I would like to the user to be able to choose the record they wish to view based on the date.
I would like to have some kind of mini calendar/date picker in the left hand menu bar which displays the dates where there is an associated record and allows the user to view that record by clicking on the associated date. I know there are minicalendars for php and date pickers for jquery. But dont know which would be the best way to go, ideally it should be easy to understand and easily configurable. I know i could download some of these and try them, but i could also waste a lot of time trying stuff that just isnt appropriate. So does anyone have any recommendations about which would be the best way to go?

cheers

derek

Weedpacket

Asking for a PHP datepicker doesn't really make much sense, since PHP runs on the server and the datepicker needs to run on the client. jQuery already has a datepicker widget. Whether it does or can do exactly what you want (reading through its documentation can save you a lot of time on deciding that) depends on what exactly your needs are - and you know what those are better than anyone else here.

Damian_

I currently use this

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Jason's Date Input Calendar- By Jason Moon http://calendar.moonscript.com/dateinput.cfm
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It can be found on dynamic drive..

You can add it to a form so the user can select a date on the minicalendar,

It is flexible enough to configure the date sequence such as "YYYY-MM-DD" , "MM-DD-YY" etc...

assuming it is reading from a MYSQL db with Date attribute field it should work just fine..