I actually like the UX of this plugin: http://digitalbush.com/projects/masked-input-plugin It has a date input. It works well to supplement Jorns plugin.
Glen On Dec 19, 2007 10:28 AM, sothis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hello, > > Awhile ago, I clumsily implemented Jorn's fantastic validation plugin to > validate a birthday field. The implementation wasn't hard, but getting the > page in general to work how I want is tricky. I'm wondering if anyone has > an > idea in how I might accomplish these goals: > > 1. Validate based on DROPDOWNS, not a text input (I tried text input and > put > clear "MM-DD-YYYY" tags, but people keep doing DD-MM which passes > validation > but often completely mangles the date due to things like 20-01-1981). So > for > example, dropdown one would be Jan, Feb, Mar, etc. > > This would be easy for me to build the date using PHP, but am not sure how > I'd do it before passing it immediately to the validator. > > 2. Allow partial dates. Again, this would be something I could do in PHP > (just using a default 01-01-YYYY if they only input a year, for example), > but am not sure how I'd do this prior to getting it to the validator. I'd > probably only want to deal with partial date meaning only a year (or a > year > and a month), not just a day and a month. > > Also, how robust is the birthdate validator? Meaning, is it just checking > if > it's a valid date, or does it check for things like "does this day > actually > exist in this month (31st, for example)", or "was there actually this date > in this year (ex: leap year) > > Thanks, I know this question is kind of vague and general. :) > > -Kim > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/Need-help-with-birthdate-validation-tp14422600s27240p14422600.html > Sent from the jQuery General Discussion mailing list archive at Nabble.com > . > >
