form_date()

[Chris Johnson]

I have added an additional form element function to my local common.inc to
handle dates for my sites. Is there any interest in generalizing /
refactoring it to be included into Drupal? If so, I'll do the work with a
little help and guidance from you all.

Here's what it currently looks like:

[?php
function form_date($title, $name, $value, $description = NULL, $attributes =
NULL, $required = FALSE) {
$classname = _form_get_class('form-date', $required,
_form_get_error($name));
$monthval = check_form($value['month']);
$dayval = check_form($value['day']);
$yearval = check_form($value['year']);
$monthname = $name . 'mm';
$dayname = $name . 'dd';
$yearname = $name . 'yy';
$html = <<<EOT
<input type="text" maxlength="2" class="$classname" name="edit[$monthname]"
id="edit-$monthname" size="2" value="$monthval" />
<span class="dateslash">/</span>
<input type="text" maxlength="2" class="$classname" name="edit[$dayname]"
id="edit-$dayname" size="2" value="$dayval" />
<span class="dateslash">/</span>
<input type="text" maxlength="4" class="$classname" name="edit[$yearname]"
id="edit-$yearname" size="4" value="$yearval" />
EOT;
return theme('form_element', $title, $html, $description, 'edit-'. $name,
$required, _form_get_error($name));
}
?]

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Chris Johnson

[Steven Wittens]

Post by Chris Johnson
I have added an additional form element function to my local
common.inc to handle dates for my sites. Is there any interest in
generalizing / refactoring it to be included into Drupal? If so, I'll
do the work with a little help and guidance from you all.

This doesn't take into account date formats... I used a somewhat dirty
tricky in profile.module to get profile's field to deal with formats,
you might want to check that out.

Steven Wittens

[Moshe Weitzman]

Post by Chris Johnson
I have added an additional form element function to my local common.inc
to handle dates for my sites. Is there any interest in generalizing /
refactoring it to be included into Drupal? If so, I'll do the work with
a little help and guidance from you all.

thats real close to what I had in mind, See the aforementioned profile
function for a more drupalish way to do this.