CJuidatepicker with altForm

Yii 1.1 General Discussion
1

so my database field is of type date which is: yy-mm-dd

The code down below is working fine, for yy-mm-dd how ever I want to display the date to the user as mm-dd-yy but insert into the database as yy-mm-dd.

I’ve been trying to use altFormat, and it seems to not work. There really isn’t much documentation about it in CJUI date picker. I also try to set defaultOptions =>array(‘altFormat’ => ‘mm-dd-yy’) but its not working.

<?php

	&#036;this-&gt;widget('zii.widgets.jui.CJuiDatePicker', array(


    'name' =&gt; CHtml::activeName(&#036;model, 'date'),


    'model'=&gt;&#036;model,


    'attribute' =&gt; 'date',


    'value' =&gt; &#036;model-&gt;attributes['date'],


    'options'=&gt;array(


            'showAnim'=&gt;'fold',


            'dateFormat' =&gt; 'yy-mm-dd',


            ),


    'htmlOptions'=&gt;array(


            'style'=&gt;'height:20px;',





    ),

));

            ?&gt;
2

any luck with this anyone? using altFormat with CJUI

3

Hi, Chief

I haven’t tested, but I’m afraid you are probably missing the “altField” option that should be used with “altFormat” option.

4

Hi softark,

Do you happen to know how to use it?

5

Sorry, I haven’t tried “altField” in my projects, because I always use ‘yy-mm-dd’ in my UIs.

Check the following

http://jqueryui.com/demos/datepicker/#alt-field

And, I think the other approach might be worth considering …

What about converting the date format on the server side? I mean

  1. after loading … yy-mm-dd => mm-dd-yy

  2. before saving … mm-dd-yy => yy-mm-dd

6

yeah thats what I ended up doing. I just converted it on the php side.

7

how did you do this?

8

with beforeSave and afterFind methods in your model.