Re: HTML_QuickForm_Date display before 1969

Thanks to you and Huy (and Joseph and Justin). This did in fact solve my problem -- I went from sensing what the problem was last night before bed, to getting it sorted based on your code sample this morning. I left the element created in preGenerateForm because that seemed cleaner than removing it and re-adding it. function preGenerateForm(){ $options = array('minYear'=>1924, 'maxYear'=>1990, 'addEmptyOption'=>true, 'format'=>'dMY'); $QF_date = new HTML_QuickForm_date('DOB', 'Date of Birth',$options); $this->preDefElements['DOB'] = $QF_date; } Then in postGenerateForm I wrote this: $dArr = explode('-', $this->DOB); $DOBArr = array("d"=>$dArr[2],"M"=>$dArr[1],"Y"=>$dArr[0]); $form->setDefaults(array('DOB'=>$DOBArr)); And, voila! Thanks again for everyone's help. It didn't seem right that just because strtotime couldn't handle it that it couldn't be done. Sarah Joseph Blythe wrote: > Hi, > > We ran into simular troubles when retrieving mySQL timestamps and trying to > use HTML_QuickForm::setDefaults the default date element is a group so > instead of doing: > > $qf->setDefaults('date'=>'1940-02-13'); > > format it as an array like (you will need to convert the timestamp first) > > $qf->setDefaults('date'=> array('Y'=>'1940', > 'M'=>'02', 'd'=>'13')); > > Regards, > > Huy and Joseph (hehe took two of us to work that out) > > -----Original Message----- > From: Sarah Gray [mailto:sarah@fabled.net] > Sent: Tuesday, 18 January 2005 3:16 PM > To: Pear > Subject: Re: [PEAR] HTML_QuickForm_Date display before 1969 > > Actually, am I just running into this issue because PHP date functions are > only > guaranteed to work after Jan 1, 1970? And so regardless of where I use them, > like > in my HTML_QuickForm_Date elements, I can't get an earlier date? This didn't > strike me as obvious until a few minutes ago when I was thinking about the > limits > of PHP date, and then I thought 'of course! This is probably the reason my > dropdowns balk when going earlier than 1969 (12-31), and I was looking for > something more complex that had to do with FormBuilder'. > > If I'm right here, to generate date dropdowns for dates prior to 1970 (ie, > birthdays of older people), is there anything you'd recommend other than > creating > individual elements in a group in the form and building a date element > manually? > > Thanks, > Sarah > > Sarah Gray wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > You shouldn't have to do this. Put this element in > > > $this->fb_preDefElement['DOB'] in preGenerateForm instead of removing > > > and recreating in postGenerateForm. This will also remove the need for > > > the setValue call below, which could easily break as FB uses > > > setDefaults. Try this and see if the problem is fixed. > > > > Thanks for the suggestion -- it is definitely a cleaner way to think about > it, > > and I removed the calls in postGenerateForm, replacing them with this: > > > > function preGenerateForm(){ > > $options = array('minYear'=>1924, > > 'maxYear'=>1990, > > 'addEmptyOption'=>true, > > 'format'=>'dMY'); > > > > $QF_date = new HTML_QuickForm_date('DOB', 'Date of Birth',$options); > > $this->preDefElements['DOB'] = $QF_date; > > } > > > > [I'm using an earlier version of FormBuilder, before the fb_ prefixes > (version > > 0.9.0).] > > It does create the element as desired, with the proper minYear and maxYear > -- > > but the behaviour is still the same -- not displaying dates before 1969 > but > > displaying them corerctly after 1969. Any thoughts? An obscure setting > > somewhere? Still messed-up syntax? > > > > Thanks. > > > > > > > > > > > > $options = array('minYear'=>1924, > > > > 'maxYear'=>1990, > > > > 'addEmptyOption'=>true, > > > > 'format'=>'dMY'); > > > > > > > > $QF_date = new HTML_QuickForm_date('DOB', 'Date of > > > > Birth',$options); > > > > $QF_date->setValue($this->DOB); // the date from the db, formatted > > > > 1969-02-14 > > > > $form->addElement($QF_date); > > > > } > > > > > > > > Thanks -- Sarah > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > Justin Patrin > > > > -- > > PEAR General Mailing List (http://pear.php.net/) > > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- > PEAR General Mailing List (http://pear.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- > PEAR General Mailing List (http://pear.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php