Rails - Jul 2006 - date_select for valid days only. No Feb 30

I am looking for some advice on how to make a date select display only 
valid days of the year.  The standard date helper allows for you to 
choose 31 days for every month of the year.  Since not all months have 
31 days this can lead to invalid date entries for scheduling.

I am thinking that an approach where I have a drop down for month and 
then use AJAX or normal client side javascript to update a day drop down 
is the way to do things.  Has anyone released any code that does this?


Thank you,
Matthew Margolis
blog.mattmargolis.net

Matthew,

Have you considered using the date_box engine?  The popup has the days 
of month correct.

Regards,

Michael

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Michael Modica wrote:
> Matthew,
>
> Have you considered using the date_box engine?  The popup has the days 
> of month correct.
>
> Regards,
>
> Michael
>
>   
While interesting this does not quite meet my needs.  I require a date 
selector that is a drop down or calendar view, the whole text box entry 
thing won''t fly for my current project.

Any other suggestions for date selectors that only show days that 
actually exist?

Matthew Margolis
blog.mattmargolis.net

Hi Matthew,

date_box is a calendar view based on the dynarch js calendar!  While it 
is true it is surrounded by a text input field, you can easily disable 
the field so that a user doesn''t type into it.  The Calendar image goes
right next to the field, but you could change that too so that the 
onclick of the field itself pops up the calendar.  The calendar is very 
nice looking and it is themed so you can change the look and feel if so 
desired.

Anyway, just my suggestion.  If you want to see a screenshot of the way 
it looks then let me know and I''ll email you one privately.  codeslush 
at yahoo dot com

Note - I just made changes to date_box engine and posted an entry here 
last night with the mod (very basic).  The way it all works is fresh in 
my head and would be happy to help you out.

Regards,

Michael


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