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Datepicker and dates

Thread began 12/21/2012 6:16 am by thehalpeen319342 | Last modified 12/21/2012 11:53 am by Jason Byrnes | 2651 views | 7 replies |

thehalpeen319342

Datepicker and dates

Jason, in a recent thread you informed me that if I left a date field blank the browser would return a date 01/01/1970 (European) in the date field.

To work around that, I set the default date in the mysql table to 01/01/1901. However, when someone doesn't submit a date, it doesn't default to 01/01/1901 in the database. How can I get it to do that, or or there any other work around for date fields left blank?

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Jason ByrnesWebAssist

What data type is the date column?
Date, DateTime, or Timestamp?

A date column requires the format of yyyy-mm-dd. the valid range it will accept is:
'1000-01-01' to '9999-12-31'

for a Date column, to set the default of 01/01/1901, you would need to enter it as:
1901-01-01

DateTime or TimeStamp fields require the date format of:
yyyy-mm-dd hh:ii:ss

for a DateTime field, the supported range is '1000-01-01 00:00:00' to '9999-12-31 23:59:59', so you would enter the default as:
1901-01-01 00:00:00

A Timestamp, though cannot be set to a date prior to 1970. a timestamp is calculated as the number of seconds that has passed since 1/1/1970. the supported range for a timestamp column is:
'1970-01-01 00:00:01' to '2038-01-19 03:14:07

see the following page for more details
datetime.html

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thehalpeen319342

Dear Jason, the data type in the date column is date. rthe default date is set to 1901-01-01.

When a user chooses not to enter their birthdate, I would like it to default to to the default date 1901-01-01. Currently if they enter nothing in the date field (Date of birth) (not a required field - they might be to modest/shy) - it produces a 01-01-1970 in the browser page - it's as if an entry is made into mysql and the default date overrided. How do I avoid this?

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Jason ByrnesWebAssist

are you formatting the date on the browser page that shows it as 01-01-1970?

what if you don't use the formatting? does it show the default date then?

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thehalpeen319342

Jason below is 3 bits of code on the insert page and after that is the code on the page that displays the date (update page).

INSERT PAGE

// manual insertion re posting date in European format
if(isset($_POST['DOB'])) {
$_POST['DOB'] = date("Y-m-d", strtotime(str_replace("/","-",$_POST['DOB'] )));
}
?>



<script type="text/javascript">
$(function(){
$('#DOB').datepicker({
changeMonth: true,
changeYear: true,
dateFormat: 'dd/mm/yy',
yearRange: "1900:2012",
maxDate: 0,
minDate: new Date(1900, 1 - 1,1),
showAnim: 'show',
onClose: closeDatePicker_DOB
});
});
function closeDatePicker_DOB() {
var tElm = $('#DOB');
if (typeof DOB_Spry != null && typeof DOB_Spry != "undefined" && DOB_Spry.validate) {
DOB_Spry.validate();
}
var docElm = document.getElementById("DOB");
var tBlur = docElm.getAttribute("onBlur");
if (!tBlur) tBlur = docElm.getAttribute("onblur");
if (!tBlur) tBlur = docElm.getAttribute("ONBLUR");
if (tBlur) {
tBlur = String(tBlur).replace(/\bthis\b/g, "docElm");
eval(tBlur);
}
}
</script>


<input id="DOB" name="DOB" type="text" value="<?php echo((isset($_GET["invalid"])?ValidatedField("addmember","DOB"):"")); ?>" class="formTextfield_Medium" tabindex="6" onblur="hideServerError('DOB_ServerError');"/>

_________________________________________________________________________

UPDATE/DETAILS Page - which displays the date

<div class="fieldGroup"> <span id="DOB_Spry"> <span>
<input id="DOB" name="DOB" type="text" value="<?php echo(date("d/m/Y", strtotime($row_rsMembers_Update['memberDOB']))); ?>" class="formTextfield_Medium" tabindex="6" onblur="hideServerError('DOB_ServerError');"/>
<span class="textfieldInvalidFormatMsg">Invalid format.</span><span class="textfieldRequiredMsg">Please enter or select a date</span> </span> </span>
<?php
if (ValidatedField('updatemember','updatemember')) {
if ((strpos((",".ValidatedField("updatemember","updatemember").","), "," . "5" . ",") !== false || "5" == "")) {
if (!(false)) {
?>
<span class="serverInvalidState" id="DOB_ServerError">Please enter or select a date</span>
<?php //WAFV_Conditional update_member.php updatemember(5:)
}
}
}?>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>

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Jason ByrnesWebAssist

try changing this code to:
if(isset($_POST['DOB'])) {
$_POST['DOB'] = date("Y-m-d", strtotime(str_replace("/","-",$_POST['DOB'] )));
}


to:
if(isset($_POST['DOB']) && $_POST['DOB'] != "") {
$_POST['DOB'] = date("Y-m-d", strtotime(str_replace("/","-",$_POST['DOB'] )));
}

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thehalpeen319342

Jason, I've replaced the code on the insert member page. The mysql database does not default to 01-01-1901 and it displays as 01/01/1970.

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Jason ByrnesWebAssist

I have created a support ticket so we can look into this issue further.

To view and edit your support ticket, please log into your support history:
supporthistory.php

If anyone else is experiencing this same issue, please append to this thread.

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