Coldfusion flat date picker calendar

It should be easy using the link mmc98dl1 suggested.

In the calendar, make the "Day" number a link

    <td><a href="YourEventPage.cfm?selDate=#FullDateOfMonth#">#DayOfMonth#</a></td>

Then run a query to get any events for the the selected date. Though, you should also validate the url parameter is a date in the correct format.

   <!--- default to current date if nothing was selected --->
   <cfparam name="url.selDate" default="#DateFormat(now(), 'mm-dd-yyyy')#">
   <cfquery name="getEvents" datasource="YourDataSource">
      SELECT  EventName, EventDetails
      FROM    YourTable
      <!---- should store as date/time not text --->
      WHERE   EventDate = <cfqueryparam value="#url.selDate#" cfsqltype="cf_sql_varchar">
   </cfquery>

   Show events for #url.selDate#:<br>
  <cfoutput query="getEvents">
      Event Name: #EventName#<br>
      Details:  #EventDetails#<br><br>
  </cfoutput>

> dates are entered into Access as text. (in the following format: 10-17-2007)

BUT .. its better to store date values in a "date/time" field so you can take advantage of CF's or your db's date functions.    When you store values as text, searching for "9/7/2007" won't find any matches if the date is entered as "09/07/2007" (ie one has leading zeroes the other doesn't).  You can get around this by using a db function to convert the strings to a "date" but that's less efficient and more error prone than just storing them as a date/time in the first place.

I found this script that seems like it will do what I am looking to accomplish:

http://www.barreport.com/html2/jscalendar.cfm

The author of the script has it programmed for PHP and when you click on a date, it's passing the DATE plus index.php.

I guess I could do something similar with CF, but, I am kind of at a loss of how I would get this done....anyone able to help me out even a little?

This is the script:
<script type="text/javascript">
  function dateChanged(calendar) {
    // Beware that this function is called even if the end-user only
    // changed the month/year.  In order to determine if a date was
    // clicked you can use the dateClicked property of the calendar:
    if (calendar.dateClicked) {
      // OK, a date was clicked, redirect to /yyyy/mm/dd/index.php
      var y = calendar.date.getFullYear();
      var m = calendar.date.getMonth();     // integer, 0..11
      var d = calendar.date.getDate();      // integer, 1..31
      // redirect...
      window.location = "/" + y + "/" + m + "/" + d + "/index.php";
    }
  };

  Calendar.setup(
    {
      flat         : "calendar-container", // ID of the parent element
      flatCallback : dateChanged           // our callback function
    }
  );
</script>

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I was thinking I could something like this (I am not a JS pro by ANY means)

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<script type="text/javascript">
  function dateChanged(calendar) {
    // Beware that this function is called even if the end-user only
    // changed the month/year.  In order to determine if a date was
    // clicked you can use the dateClicked property of the calendar:
    if (calendar.dateClicked) {
      // OK, a date was clicked, redirect to /yyyy/mm/dd/index.php
      var y = calendar.date.getFullYear();
      var m = calendar.date.getMonth();     // integer, 0..11
      var d = calendar.date.getDate();      // integer, 1..31
        var selDate = y + m + d();
      // redirect...
      window.location = "/" + y + "/" + m + "/" + d + "/" + selDate + "/" + "testEvents.cfm";
    }
  };

  Calendar.setup(
    {
      flat         : "calendar-container", // ID of the parent element
      flatCallback : dateChanged           // our callback function
    }
  );
</script>
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testEvents.cfm
----------------
   <!--- default to current date if nothing was selected --->
   <cfparam name="url.selDate" default="#DateFormat(now(), 'mm-dd-yyyy')#">
   <cfquery name="getEventsCalendar" datasource="DSN">
   <!--- --->
   SELECT  e.eventID, e.eventName, e.eventPhone, e.eventEmail, e.eventWebsite, e.eventFee, e.eventAgeID,
                              e.eventTimeTo, e.eventTimeFrom, e.eventDate, e.eventShortDescription, e.eventLongDescription,
                              e.eventImage, e.eventAtmosphereID,
                              e.eventContactPerson, e.featuredEvent,
                              ea.eventAgeID, ea.eventAge,
                              p.placeID, p.placeName, p.placeType,
                              p.placeStreetAddress, p.placeCity, p.placeState, p.placeZip, p.placePhone, p.placeEmail, p.placeWebsite,
                              p.placeDescription, p.placeLogo, p.placeHours, p.placeTypeID,
                              a.eventAtmosphereID,
                              a.eventAtmosphere
      FROM   BRPlaces AS p, EventAge AS ea, BREvents AS e, Events AS e1, EventAtmosphere AS a
      WHERE e.eventDate = <cfqueryparam value="#url.selDate#" cfsqltype="cf_sql_varchar">
            AND ea.EventAgeID = e.EventAgeID
            AND e.EventID = e1.EventID
            AND e1.eventAtmosphereID = a.eventAtmosphereID
 ORDER BY e.EventID, e.eventDate DESC
   </cfquery>



<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
</head>

<body>
   Show events for <cfoutput>#url.selDate#:</cfoutput><br>
  <cfoutput query="getEventsCalendar">
      Event Name: #EventName#<br>
      Details:  #eventLongDescription#<br><br>
  </cfoutput>

</body>
</html>

i changed the fields from Text to Date/Time as suggested.

Assuming you have permission to use that script, I think you'd want to pass the selected date as a parameter like this


window.location = "testEvents.cfm?selDate=" + y + "/" + m + "/" + d;

Don't forget to validate the date parameter

<!--- use the current date if nothing was selected, or the value is invalid --->
<cfif NOT (IsDefined("url.selDate") OR IsDate(url.selDate))>
      <cfset url.selDate = dateFormat(now(), "yyyy/mm/dd")>
</cfif>

And change the cfsqltype to a date/time type

   <cfqueryparam value="#url.selDate#" cfsqltype="cf_sql_date">   ... or ..

   <cfqueryparam value="#url.selDate#" cfsqltype="cf_sql_timestamp">

it works!

it's strange because the events repeat and the calendar is a month behind.

http://www.barreport.com/html2/jscalendar2.cfm

check it out. click on november 30th and october 30th comes up. now. go to december 30th, and the november 30 events will come up and they repeat......

<!--- use the current date if nothing was selected, or the value is invalid --->
<cfif NOT (IsDefined("url.selDate") OR IsDate(url.selDate))>
      <cfset url.selDate = dateFormat(now(), "mm/dd/yyyy")>
</cfif>
 
 
   <!--- default to current date if nothing was selected --->
<cfparam name="url.selDate" default="#DateFormat(now(), 'mm-dd-yyyy')#">
   <cfquery name="getEventsCalendar" datasource="DSN">
   <!--- --->
   SELECT  e.eventID, e.eventName, e.eventPhone, e.eventEmail, e.eventWebsite, e.eventFee, e.eventAgeID,
					e.eventTimeTo, e.eventTimeFrom, e.eventDate, e.eventShortDescription, e.eventLongDescription, 
					e.eventImage, e.eventAtmosphereID,
					e.eventContactPerson, e.featuredEvent,
					ea.eventAgeID, ea.eventAge,
					p.placeID, p.placeName, p.placeType, 
					p.placeStreetAddress, p.placeCity, p.placeState, p.placeZip, p.placePhone, p.placeEmail, p.placeWebsite, 
					p.placeDescription, p.placeLogo, p.placeHours, p.placeTypeID, 
					a.eventAtmosphereID, 
					a.eventAtmosphere 
	FROM   BRPlaces AS p, EventAge AS ea, BREvents AS e, Events AS e1, EventAtmosphere AS a 
	WHERE e.eventDate = <cfqueryparam value="#url.selDate#" cfsqltype="cf_sql_timestamp">
		AND ea.EventAgeID = e.EventAgeID
		AND e.EventID = e1.EventID
		AND e1.eventAtmosphereID = a.eventAtmosphereID 
 ORDER BY e.EventID
   </cfquery>
 
 
 
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
</head>
 
<body>
   Show events for <cfoutput>#url.selDate#:</cfoutput><br>
  <cfoutput query="getEventsCalendar">
      Event Name: #eventName#<br>
      Details:  #eventLongDescription#<br><br>
  </cfoutput>
 
</body>
</html>
                                              

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Yes, its one month behind because the month is zero-based.  Just add + 1and it should be fine

window.location = "testEvents.cfm?selDate=" + y + "/" + (m+1) + "/" + d;

Did you add the date validation? Right now it throws and error if you select 03/30/2007 (one month ahead)

InvalidDateTimeException: 2/30/2007 is an invalid date or time string..

I am using       WHERE e.eventDate = <cfqueryparam value="#url.selDate#" cfsqltype="cf_sql_date">

I added the (m+1), thanks so much for that.

Still dont understand why it's repeating.

<!--- use the current date if nothing was selected, or the value is invalid --->
<cfif NOT (IsDefined("url.selDate") OR IsDate(url.selDate))>
      <cfset url.selDate = dateFormat(now(), "mm/dd/yyyy")>
</cfif>


   <!--- default to current date if nothing was selected --->
<!---<cfparam name="url.selDate" default="#DateFormat(now(), 'mm-dd-yyyy')#">--->
   <cfquery name="getEventsCalendar" datasource="DSN">
   <!--- --->
   SELECT  e.eventID, e.eventName, e.eventPhone, e.eventEmail, e.eventWebsite, e.eventFee, e.eventAgeID,
                              e.eventTimeTo, e.eventTimeFrom, e.eventDate, e.eventShortDescription, e.eventLongDescription,
                              e.eventImage, e.eventAtmosphereID,
                              e.eventContactPerson, e.featuredEvent,
                              ea.eventAgeID, ea.eventAge,
                              p.placeID, p.placeName, p.placeType,
                              p.placeStreetAddress, p.placeCity, p.placeState, p.placeZip, p.placePhone, p.placeEmail, p.placeWebsite,
                              p.placeDescription, p.placeLogo, p.placeHours, p.placeTypeID,
                              a.eventAtmosphereID,
                              a.eventAtmosphere
      FROM   BRPlaces AS p, EventAge AS ea, BREvents AS e, Events AS e1, EventAtmosphere AS a
      WHERE e.eventDate = <cfqueryparam value="#url.selDate#" cfsqltype="cf_sql_date">
            AND ea.EventAgeID = e.EventAgeID
            AND e.EventID = e1.EventID
            AND e1.eventAtmosphereID = a.eventAtmosphereID
 ORDER BY e.EventID
   </cfquery>



<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
</head>

<body>
   <p>Show events for <cfoutput>#url.selDate#:</cfoutput><br>
  <cfoutput query="getEventsCalendar">
      Event Name: #eventName#<br>
      Details:  #eventLongDescription#<br />
  </cfoutput></p>

</body>
</html>

Here is an example: http://www.barreport.com/html2/testEvents.cfm?selDate=11/30/2007

Thank you so very much for all your help!