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Date format support
I’m sure this has been discussed before. But since we are not a US-centric CMS (the original founder was Canadian and all the current devs are European) we should really offer the article date fields in more options than just YYYY MM DD I think. Maybe as a pref option, or (better I think) via language/locale stuff.
Also, there are of course other calendars than Gregorian, Oleg did some great work with this plugin so I wonder if any of that could find its way into core? I’m still improving RTL language support within Textpattern so that would make sense to do.
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Re: Date format support
Not quite sure how we’d refactor the current article date fields to achieve this. Maybe better is to drop the three separate input fields in favour of a single box + date picker. Presumably, that’s nicer for mobile users too, as you get the date input widget instead of three separate number widgets? I would expect the jQuery UI date picker can be made locale (and date system???) aware. Behind the scenes we’d convert everything to UTC for storage but changing the date system would likely require a pref.
On this note, one of the things on my todo list is to investigate adding a ‘custom’ entry to the date format prefs so you can design your own (output) formats for articles using strftime() codes. That’s what the DB stores anyway so allowing custom formats seems fairly trivial on the surface.
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Re: Date format support
Well, we already have the jQuery UI datepicker widget available in the core, so that’s a good possibility.
There’s also HTML5 input types that deal with date and time – but browser support for those is still too patchy to rely on.
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I wrote a plugin long ago that uses the jQuery UI datepicker for the article dates. But it does it all via javascript so not much help for a core implementation. msd_admin_datepicker
Last edited by MattD (2014-04-23 23:59:09)
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Re: Date format support
Bloke wrote #280365:
Maybe better is to drop the three separate input fields in favour of a single box + date picker.
Exactly like that. Of course jQuery UI date widget, and HTML5 implementations in general, do support date and time in same field. So, basically there would be two bits of information, so will have to use two separate fields. Implementing the datepicker is easy. You would have implement some extra stuff such as:
- passing dates with
textpattern.gTxt()to the calendar… - …and in PHP passing them from locales to JavaScript through gTxtScript().
- and adding some
data-attribute support for controlling min/max date (which is merely one line of code).
E.g.
jQuery.fn.txpDatepicker = function (options)
{
var minDate = this.attr('data-txp-mix-date').split('-');
options = $.extends({
monthNames: [textpattern.gTxt('january'), textpattern.gTxt('february')],
minDate: new Date(minDate[0], minDate[1], minDate[2])
}, options);
this.datepicker(options);
return this;
};Resulting PHP implementation is easy to do too:
$date = new DateTime(ps('posted_date') + ' ' + ps('posted_time'));…and you can input the date in any valid format and it will just work.
Last edited by Gocom (2014-04-24 00:58:13)
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Can one if you developer people do that then, when you have some spare time? I’ll do any extra styling needed after it’s patched in.
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