Editor date field

rwgreenwood

Hi,
I have a date field in an editor form and do not want to use a datepicker because this is historical information and many of the dates are older. So I do not have the field set as a type of date. I want to be able to validate with a single digit month and day. I have this:

Field::inst( 'start_date' )
            ->validator( 'Validate::dateFormat', array(
                'format' => 'm/d/Y',
                "message" => "Please enter a date in the format m/d/y")
            ) 
            ->getFormatter( 'Format::date_sql_to_format', 'm/d/Y' )
            ->setFormatter( 'Format::date_format_to_sql', 'm/d/Y' )            
        ,

And have tried many different combinations for the format in the validator. But it will only validate if all digits are entered i.e.'01/01/2001'

Any ideas? Thanks in advance.

tangerine

I suspect you will need to provide your own formatters. I needed partial dates (00-00-1923, or 01-05-0000, for example) and wrote my own formatters as the Editor's PHP library relies on PHP date functions which insist on "correct" date formats.

rwgreenwood

Thanks for the reply. It helped lead me to the PHP API documentation where I can now see what I need to do.