Cactiveform Datefield Customization

Yii 1.1 General Discussion
1

Hi, I am using CActiveForm to create a form that has a dateField. I want to customize the format of the dateField, it is by default: Day/Month/Year. I also want to validate if the date is in the future. Any suggestions???

Thanks!!

2

You can try this:


$pattern = 'dd/MM/yyyy';

$timestamp = strtotime($model->published_datetime);

if ($timestamp !== false)

	$model->published_datetime = Yii::app()->getDateFormatter()->format($pattern, $timestamp);

else

	$model->published_datetime =  '';

$this->widget('zii.widgets.jui.CJuiDatePicker', array(

	'model'=>$model,

	'attribute'=>'published_datetime',

	'options'=>array(

		'dateFormat'=>'dd/mm/yy',

		'minDate'=>'+1d',//day can choose >= tomorrow

	),

));

in model


protected function beforeValidate()

{

	$timestamp = CDateTimeParser::parse($this->published_datetime, 'dd/MM/yyyy');

	if ($timestamp === false)

		$this->published_datetime = '';

	else

		$this->published_datetime = date('Y-m-d', $timestamp);

	return parent::beforeValidate();

}

if you want to validate in model add rule validate date and use logic


public function rules()

{

        return array(

            array('published_datetime','validateDate'),

	);

}



public function validateDate($attribute,$params){

//allow published_datetime empty

if (!empty($this->$attribute ))

{

	if (strtotime($this->$attribute) <= time())

		return false;

}

return true;

}