Collecting Date Of Birth Using 3 Dropdown, Then Converting To Date Obj ?

Yii 1.1 General Discussion
1

In my database, I have a date of birth (dob) field that is of type date.

When I create model from my table, it creates one attribute as dob for

me.

So when I generate my form from my model, it has one field that can collect

the user’s date of birth. What I want to have is to have 3 dropdown elements

each for day month and year. then when I submit my form, they all get bundle

up together as dd-mm-yyyy and get populated to my model attribute "dob"

At this point I can’t figure out how to do it using Yii form since the model

gets passed to the view, how can I find a way to accomplish this. So to recap,

-I want to have only one field in my User table for dob as date type

-I want to have 3 dropdowns in my Yii generated form that at submit time they

form my dob and populate it in the $model->user_dob

2

why dont you try date picker instead that heavy hard coding…




<div class="row">

		<?php echo $form->labelEx($model,'end'); ?>

		<?php //echo $form->textField($model,'end'); ?>

        <?php

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

         'name'=>'end',

            'model'=>$model,

            'attribute'=>'end',

            // additional javascript options for the date picker plugin

             'options'=>array(

                 'showAnim'=>'fold',

                 'dateFormat'=>'dd-mm-yy'

             ),

             'htmlOptions'=>array(

          'style'=>'height:20px;'

             ),

         ));




        ?>


        <?php echo $form->error($model,'end'); ?>

	</div>

–hope this helps

3

Yes I think that is the better way to accomplish what I want. Appreciate it Buddy! :)