Hi Ben,
Well it is one of the most trivial things, but in the end it was kinda
labourious. Heres a quick and dirty way I implemented it, it you come up or
anyone else comes up with something a little cleaner by all means join the
discussion.
I basically sent the DateSelector object to the screen, had problems
localising it to a European date format Day/Month/Year
Putting it to the screen with the current date:
ElementContainer dateSelect = new ElementContainer();
Calendar calendar = new GregorianCalendar();
Date myStartDate = new Date();
calendar.setTime(myStartDate);
Locale myLocale = new Locale("ENGLISH", "UK");
calendar = calendar.getInstance(myLocale);
DateSelector ds = new DateSelector("fromDate", calendar);
dateSelect = ds.ecsOutput();
I then grab the resulting generating code using the:
String lmnthStartDate = data.getParameters().getString("fromDate_month");
String ldayStartDate = data.getParameters().getString("fromDate_day");
String lyearStartDate = data.getParameters().getString("fromDate_year");
Then I form a string and convert this into a date:
ParsePosition pos = new ParsePosition(0);
String lStrDate = ldayStartDate+"/"+strMnthStartDate+"/"+lyearStartDate;
Date myStartDate = formatter.parse(lStrDate, pos);
This is a little rough and very much a cut n paste effort. But I'm sure you
get my drift...if you come across with anything better let me know.
-----Original Message-----
From: Ben Peter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 12 April 2002 09:03
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Examples of hadling date input
Hi,
browsing through the turbine2 and fulcrum java docs I have found two things
that provide help with handling date input:
http://jakarta.apache.org/turbine/turbine-2/apidocs/org/apache/turbine/util/
DateSelector.html
http://jakarta.apache.org/turbine/fulcrum/apidocs/org/apache/fulcrum/intake/
model/DateStringField.html
Has anyone used intake and/or the DateSelector and can provide a simple
example
of how to use them?
If no and there is interest, I will investigate and post it back here.
(I realise that this is probably nothing very sophisticated, but I always
find
it a tedious task to figure out how date input is best handled).
Cheers,
Ben
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