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Noraz
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 12, 2004 2:20 am    Post subject: SmartyValidate with html_select_date Reply with quote

This is my first post in a forum, ever, so hopefully this isn't too stupid. I did my best to read through all of the documentation I could find, but I'm still stumped.

Goal: Display start and end dates using html_select_date and validate end date to ensure it is on or after the start date. If end date is before start date, redisplay the form; retaining the incorrect values and supplying an error message.

Background: In the SmartyValidate Readme, I found the following code, which I tried to emmulate
Code:

{* generate the EndDate value from EndDateYear, EndDateMonth, EndDateDay *}
{validate field="EndDate" criteria="dummyValid" transform="makeDate"}

{* generate StarDate, then compare to EndDate *}
{validate field="StartDate" criteria="isDateOnOrBefore" field2="EndDate" transform="makeDate" message="..."}

{html_select_date name="StartDate"}
{html_select_date name="EndDate"}

{* we need these two hidden form fields to hold the values generated by makeDate *}
<input type="hidden" name="StartDate">
<input type="hidden" name="EndDate">


So I created the following files

filter.php
[php:1:1f01df4349]<?php
$start_date = mktime(date("h"),date("i"),date("s"),date("m")-1, date("d"), date("Y"));
$end_date = mktime(date("h"),date("i"),date("s"),date("m"), date("d"), date("Y"));

$smarty->assign('startDate', $start_date);
$smarty->assign('endDate', $end_date);

if(empty($_POST)) {
SmartyValidate::register_form('filterForm', true);
$smarty->display('filter.tpl');
} else {
// validate after a POST
if(SmartyValidate::is_valid($_POST,'filterForm')) {
// no errors, done with SmartyValidate
SmartyValidate::disconnect();
$smarty->display('success.tpl');
} else {
// error, redraw the form
$smarty->assign($_POST);
$smarty->display('filter.tpl');
}
}
?>[/php:1:1f01df4349]

filter.tpl
Code:

<form name="filterForm" method="POST" action="filter.php">
<table border=0>
  {* Start Date Validations *}
  {* generate the startDate value from startDateYear, startDateMonth, startDateDay *}
  {validate field="startDate" criteria="dummyValid" transform="makeDate"}       
  <tr>
    <td>{html_select_date prefix="startDate" time=$startDate}</td>
  </tr>
     
  {* End Date Validations *}       
  {validate form="filterForm" field="endDate" criteria="isDateOnOrAfter" field2="startDate" transform="makeDate" message="error" assign=endDateError}

  {if !empty($endDateError)}
  <tr>         
    <td>{$endDateError}</td>
  </tr>         
  {/if}
  <tr>       
    <td>{html_select_date prefix="endDate" time=$endDate}</td>
  </tr>
       
  <tr>
    <td><input type="submit" class="formButton" value="Submit"></td>
  </tr>
</table>
     
{* we need these two hidden form fields to hold the values generated by makeDate *}
<input type="hidden" name="startDate">
<input type="hidden" name="endDate">     
</form>


So, everything displays just fine. However, if I do the following...

1) Select end date prior to start date
2) Submit

The page is correctly redisplayed, but I receive this Notice

Quote:

Notice: strtotime() [function.strtotime]: Called with empty time parameter in c:\php\smarty\libs\plugins\validate_criteria.isDateOnOrAfter.php on line 22


and sure enough, if I do a {debug}, I see that the {$startDate} variable is empty. I'm not sure that is the cause of the notice, but I'm equally certain that it's bad.

Any suggestions as to what I'm doing wrong or a better way to go about this? All help and insight is appreciated!!

addendum: I did wonder if I needed to somehow reassign the $_POST data to the "filterForm", but I wasn't sure if that was possible or necessary. The values appear to be retained correctly, so I thought that I did it right (surely a bad assumption).
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mohrt
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 12, 2004 2:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

make sure you put:

form="filterForm"

on all your validation tags.
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Noraz
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Joined: 12 Aug 2004
Posts: 13
Location: Raleigh, NC

PostPosted: Thu Aug 12, 2004 2:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Oh, good grief. I was scared it was something simple, well relieved actually.

Thank you so much! I see tons of answers by you in the forums. Your time and help are greatly appreciated.
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