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If you are a TWiki contributor please update the extension in the SVN repository.
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Pop-up calendar with date picker, for use in TWiki forms, HTML forms and TWiki plugins
Introduction
The DatePickerPlugin handles an input field with a pop-up calendar to select a date for use in TWiki forms and TWiki applications. The plugin is based on the Mishoo JSCalendar, a DHTML pop-up calendar. The date format can be customized.
 ATTENTION: This plugin replaces the JSCalendarContrib. The DatePickerPlugin and older versions of the JSCalendarContrib do not coexist. Before using the DatePickerPlugin, uninstall the JSCalendarContrib, or upgrade the contrib to version 2012-12-12 or later.
Use Date Picker in TWikiForms
This package adds a date type to TWikiForms:
| Type |
Description |
Size |
Value |
date |
Text input field and a button next to it to pick a date from a pop-up calendar. The date can also be typed into the text box. |
Text box width in number of characters |
Initial (default) date |
Example form definition:
Use Date Picker in HTML Forms
You can also use the date picker directly in your HTML forms, without having to write any code. Just include this in the topic text:
<form action="...">
%DATEPICKER{ name="Start_date" value="2025-04-05" }%
<form>
This will show an HTML input field named "Start_date" and a button to popup a calendar to select a date.
| Parameter |
Description |
Default |
Example |
name |
Name of input field.
φ: No output is shown if the name parameter is missing, but the CSS and Javascript are loaded. |
(requiredφ) |
name="Start" |
value |
Initial date value. |
"" (today) |
value="2012-12-31" |
format |
Format of resulting date value.
• %a - abbreviated weekday name
• %A - full weekday name
• %b - abbreviated month name
• %B - full month name
• %C - century number
• %d - the day of the month (00 ... 31)
• %e - the day of the month (0 ... 31)
• %H - hour (00 ... 23)
• %I - hour (01 ... 12)
• %j - day of the year ( 000 ... 366)
• %k - hour (0 ... 23)
• %l - hour (1 ... 12)
• %m - month (01 ... 12)
• %M - minute (00 ... 59)
• %n - a newline character
• %p - "PM" or "AM"
• %P - "pm" or "am"
• %S - second (00 ... 59)
• %s - number of seconds since Epoch (since Jan 01 1970 00:00:00 UTC)
• %t - a tab character
• %U, %W, %V - the week number. The week 01 is the week that has the Thursday in the current year, which is equivalent to the week that contains the fourth day of January. Weeks start on Monday.
• %u - the day of the week (1 ... 7, 1 = MON)
• %w - the day of the week (0 ... 6, 0 = SUN)
• %y - year without the century (00 ... 99)
• %Y - year including the century (ex. 2012)
• %% - a literal % character |
"%Y-%m-%d" |
format="%e %b %Y" |
id |
ID of input field, optional. |
"id_" + name |
id="idStart" |
size |
Size of input field, in number of characters. |
(calculated as needed) |
size="12" |
class |
CSS class of input field. |
"twikiInputField" |
class="dateField" |
Additional HTML input field attributes, such as alt, disabled, maxlength, onblur, onchange, onfocus, readonly, style, tabindex, title |
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Test: (this only works if the DatePickerPlugin is installed and enabled)
Detailed Documentation
<--/twistyPlugin twikiMakeVisibleInline--> <--/twistyPlugin-->
Installation Instructions
You do not need to install anything on the browser to use this plugin. These instructions are for the administrator who installs the plugin on the TWiki server.
<--/twistyPlugin twikiMakeVisibleInline-->
%$INSTALL_INSTRUCTIONS%
- An administrator can customize the appearance of the calendar by modifying
{Plugins}{DatePickerPlugin} settings in the "Extensions" section of configure: | Setting | Default | $TWiki::cfg{Plugins}{DatePickerPlugin}{Format} | '%Y-%m-%d' | $TWiki::cfg{Plugins}{DatePickerPlugin}{Lang} | 'en' | $TWiki::cfg{Plugins}{DatePickerPlugin}{Style} | 'twiki' |
<--/twistyPlugin-->
Plugin Info
- Set SHORTDESCRIPTION = Pop-up calendar with date picker, for use in TWiki forms, HTML forms and TWiki plugins
Related Topics: VarDATEPICKER, TWikiPreferences, TWikiForms, TWikiPlugins
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