I've managed to cobble together some code for a data range selector in AnyTime:
$(document).ready(function() {
$("#date_start").AnyTime_noPicker().removeAttr("disabled").AnyTime_picker({format:"%Y-%m-%d",earliest:new Date(2000,0,1,0,0,0)});
$("#date_end").AnyTime_noPicker().removeAttr("disabled").AnyTime_picker({format:"%Y-%m-%d",earliest:new Date(2000,0,1,0,0,0)});
var rangeFormat = "%Y-%m-%d";
var rangeConv = new AnyTime.Converter({format:rangeFormat});
var oneDay = 60*1*1000;
$("#date_start").change( function() {
var fromDay = rangeConv.parse($("#date_start").val()).getTime();
var ToDay = rangeConv.parse($("#date_end").val()).getTime();
if (fromDay > ToDay) {
var ninetyDaysLater = new Date(fromDay + oneDay);
$("#date_end").AnyTime_noPicker().removeAttr("disabled").val(rangeConv.format(ninetyDaysLater)).AnyTime_picker({
earliest: ninetyDaysLater,
format: rangeFormat
});
}
});
$("#date_end").change( function() {
var fromDay = rangeConv.parse($("#date_end").val()).getTime();
var ToDay = rangeConv.parse($("#date_start").val()).getTime();
if (fromDay < ToDay) {
var ninetyDaysLater = new Date(fromDay - oneDay);
$("#date_start").AnyTime_noPicker().removeAttr("disabled").val(rangeConv.format(ninetyDaysLater)).AnyTime_picker({
earliest: ninetyDaysLater,
format: rangeFormat
});
}
});
});
... which has the following HTML elements:
<label for="date_start">Start Date of Event</label>
<input type="text" name="date_start" value="" id="date_start" />
<label for="date_end">End Date of Event</label>
<input type="text" name="date_end" value="" id="date_end" />
However, it's giving me errors, and I'm not sure why.
Having poured over similar code on other websites and in the few tutorials I've been able to find, I can't see what's wrong with the code.
When I click on the first date field, I get a slew of errors:
is not in "%Y-%m-%d" format
... which appears twice for line 971 in the code for AnyTime itself (anytime.5.0.1-1403131246.js), followed by three more grouped together for the same line in the same file. I get the same error when I click in the second field. But after that, the code begins to work.
Because I'm unable to isolate the source in my code, I just don't know where to begin with this (I'm in learning mode green for jQuery).