Hi,
I brought this up before on the old Semantic Forms list [1]. At the time I
thought it was a viable solution to put my own custom made buttons into the
forms where I need them, and I used the HTMLets extension for that.
The problem with this solution is, that it's quite unmaintainable. I have to
specify the ID numbers of the HTML input elements, and as soon as I change the
form, those change, and have to be adjusted in the files that get included via
the HTMLets extension. So I thought it would be much better to have that
functionality directly in Semantic Forms (where the ID numbers are known).
Today I got around adding this to Semantic Forms, the patch against a recent
SVN checkout is attached. It adds a button titled "Today" and a button titled
"Yesterday" next to each date input. In our SMW/SF application it is desirable
to have this for all date input fields, but I guess in others, where the dates
are historical ones, or otherwise never "today" or "yesterday", they would be
useless. So this should probably be configurable, or maybe there should be two
new input types, 'date_buttons' and 'datetime_buttons', or something like that.
Or is this feature so useless to anyone else, that it should not be included in
Semantic Forms? Yaron, what do you think?
Patrick.
[1]: http://groups.google.com/group/semantic-forms/msg/eda41d40bda28d26?
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Index: includes/SF_FormInputs.inc
===================================================================
--- includes/SF_FormInputs.inc (revision 53634)
+++ includes/SF_FormInputs.inc (working copy)
@@ -479,6 +479,24 @@
$text .= SFFormInputs::monthDropdownHTML($month, $input_name, $is_disabled);
}
$text .= ' <input tabindex="' . $sfgTabIndex . '" id="' . $input_id . '_year" name="' . $input_name . '[year]" type="text" value="' . $year . '" size="4" ' . $disabled_text . '/>' . "\n";
+
+ // Button to conveniently input current date
+ $sfgTabIndex++;
+ $text .= ' <input type="button" id="' . $input_id . '_todaybutton" tabindex="' . $sfgTabIndex . '" name="' . $input_name . '[todaybutton]" value="Today" ';
+ $text .= 'onClick="mydate=new Date(); myday=mydate.getDate(); document.createbox.' . $input_id . '_day.value=myday; ';
+ $text .= ' mymonth=new String(\'0\' + parseInt(mydate.getMonth()+1)).slice(-2); document.createbox.' . $input_id . '_month.value=mymonth; ';
+ $text .= ' document.createbox.' . $input_id . '_year.value=mydate.getFullYear();"';
+ $text .= " $disabled_text/> " . "\n";
+
+ // Button to conveniently input yesterday's date
+ $sfgTabIndex++;
+ $text .= ' <input type="button" id="' . $input_id . '_yesterdaybutton" tabindex="' . $sfgTabIndex . '" name="' . $input_name . '[yesterdaybutton]" value="Yesterday" ';
+ $text .= 'onClick="mydate=new Date(); mydate.setDate(mydate.getDate()-1); ';
+ $text .= ' myday=mydate.getDate(); document.createbox.' . $input_id . '_day.value=myday; ';
+ $text .= ' mymonth=new String(\'0\' + parseInt(mydate.getMonth()+1)).slice(-2); document.createbox.' . $input_id . '_month.value=mymonth; ';
+ $text .= ' document.createbox.' . $input_id . '_year.value=mydate.getFullYear();"';
+ $text .= " $disabled_text/> " . "\n";
+
$text .= " <span id=\"$info_id\" class=\"errorMessage\"></span>";
return array($text, null);
}
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