Hello! I'm looking to use jQuery with Cake, specifically with a form. My plan was to use a DatePicker (http://docs.jquery.com/UI/Datepicker) control instead of the default datetime drop-down menus, but it looks like the easy approach (give the datetime div an id that jQuery's DatePicker automagically replaces) doesn't seem to work. Specifically, jQuery doesn't replace the Cake form elements (nevermind stuff like feeding back into Cake's validation logic). Also, I don't want to use AJAX, just the UI control to make my otherwise normal form easier to use.
I was thinking about hacking together some sort of custom, hidden form elements to convey the datetime back to Cake, putting the DatePicker on the page, and then having code in the 'onSubmit' to extract the relevant info & stuff them into the hidden fields. I got as far as realizing that I'd need more code to auto-populate the control, plus the uncertainty that Cake would actually use this info (even if I named the form elements identically to the normal datetime stuff), and realized how dodge-y this all sounded :) So instead of throwing a lot of time into that first up, I wanted to instead ask if there's a reasonable approach to this. I *think* what I want to do is replace a standard Cake $form->input field with my own, but still have the auto-populate (and auto-validate) logic work. Any ideas on ways to approach this would be appreciated. Authoritative responses like "There's no way to do this without rewriting parts of Cake/vast amounts of your own code" are also appreciated (I'd rather find out this isn't possible & try something else, instead of throwing tons of time into it and find that out on my own :) ). Thanks! --Mike --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CakePHP" group. To post to this group, send email to cake-php@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to cake-php+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
