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Datepicker prepopulate with today date

Hi,

I'm using Jquery Datepicker http://docs.jquery.com/UI/Datepicker
in my form and I like to prepopulate the field with today date.
The calendar is preseleting the today date but the date field is empty by default.
Here is my code

//PHP code the value = empty

$date   = '';

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//js

//date picker
$(document).ready(function(){
    $("#dp").datepicker({
       showOn: 'button',
       buttonImage: 'img/calendar_20.png',
       buttonImageOnly: true,
       dateFormat: 'yy-mm-dd',
	   dayNamesMin: ['Di', 'Lu', 'Ma', 'Me', 'Je', 'Ve', 'Sa'],
	   monthNamesShort: ['Jan','Fev','Mar','Avr','Mai','Jui','Jul','Aou','Sep','Oct','Nov','Dec'],
	   firstDay: 1 ,
	   showButtonPanel: false,
	   changeMonth: true,
	   changeYear: true

    });
  });

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//the form input

<tr>
  <td>
    Date yyyy-mm-dd:
  </td>
  <td>
  <div>
    <input type=text name=date size=10 id="dp" value="<?php echo $date; ?> ">
 </div>	
  </td>
</tr>

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Thanks

Ray Paseur

Try this and see if it gets you anything.

In the PHP code,

$date = date('c');

Ray Paseur

Also, beware of using the word "date" -- this is a reserved word in MySQL so it can trip you up. I have an article here about PHP and MySQL DATETIME processing. You may find it helpful.
https://www.experts-exchange.com/Web_Development/Web_Languages-Standards/PHP/A_201-Handling-date-and-time-in-PHP-and-MySQL.html

Best regards, ~Ray

leakim971

what is the CURRENT format of $date ? Y-m-d ?

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leakim971

if the format is YYYY-MM-DD :

you can use and hidden field to get the php string date ;

<tr>
  <td>
    Date yyyy-mm-dd:
  </td>
  <td>
  <div>
    <input type="hidden" name="hdate" size="10" id="hdp" value="<?php echo $date; ?>" />
    <input type="text" name="date" size="10" id="dp" />
 </div>	
  </td>
</tr>

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leakim971

@Ray_Paseur, thank you for the information. Did'nt see you last comment before posting.

So I finish to post :

$(document).ready(function(){
    $("#dp").datepicker({
       showOn: 'button',
       buttonImage: 'img/calendar_20.png',
       buttonImageOnly: true,
       dateFormat: 'yy-mm-dd',
	   dayNamesMin: ['Di', 'Lu', 'Ma', 'Me', 'Je', 'Ve', 'Sa'],
	   monthNamesShort: ['Jan','Fev','Mar','Avr','Mai','Jui','Jul','Aou','Sep','Oct','Nov','Dec'],
	   firstDay: 1 ,
	   showButtonPanel: false,
	   changeMonth: true,
	   changeYear: true

    });
    var hdp = $("#hdp").val().split("-");
    var dp_year = hpd[0]; 
    var dp_month = hpd[1]; 
    var dp_day = hpd[2]; 
    $("#dp").datepicker("setDate", new Date(parseInt(dp_year), parseInt(dp_month)-1, parseInt(dp_day)));
  });

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Ray Paseur

@leakin971: Do you happen to know if the PHP date function can return information in location or language? (I don't) It might be nice for our asker if we could give back information in French.

leakim971

>Do you happen to know if the PHP date function can return information in location or language?
No, I don't know.

>It might be nice for our asker if we could give back information in French.
It's not a good thing for further readers

lenamtl

ASKER

Thanks a lot

I have modified
$date = '';
to
$date = date('Y-m-d');

and it isworking perfectly

Ray Paseur

Thanks for the points. Please see this post. It is in Russian but the language translation concept might port easily to French.
http://us.php.net/manual/en/function.date.php#92090

Best regards, ~Ray