Calendar Date Select

Version 1.10.5 (released Apr 11, 2008). See ChangeLog.

Overview

This far out and groovy date picker is semi-light-weight (about ~20k of javascript/css) and easy to use (but gets even lighter with bundle-fu)! It takes full advantage of the prototype.js library, resulting in less code, but maintaining a great deal of functionality. This means your apps will load faster!

It's capable too! It:

• can pick a date, or a date-time, or a date with an optional time, as a popup selector or an embedded calendar!
• speaks several different formats
• is easy to localize
• is extensible. Calendar Date Select doesn't do everything under the sun (which is a good thing), but you can build on top of it.

Demo (generously hosted by Nick Adams)

Installation / Usage

1. Run this in the command line for your folder:

script/plugin install http://calendardateselect.googlecode.com/svn/tags/calendar_date_select

# or... if you are on Edge Rails and use git:
script/plugin install git://github.com/timcharper/calendar_date_select.git

1. Then, restart/start your rails project. All necessary files will be copied to your public folder.
2. Then include this at the top of your layout: (you'll also need to include prototype, if you haven't already!)

<%= calendar_date_select_includes "red" # or "blue", or "silver", or nil for the default! %>

See the Demo for various uses of CalendarDateSelect.

Contributing

Calendar Date Select has been switched over to git (but the svn repository is still maintained to for convenience). Anyone can fork the calendar date select git repository, commit patches, and request that I pull them into the main repository. This is the preferred method for contributing patches.

Head on over to gitorious for git hacking happiness.

Upgrading

CalendarDateSelect only copies its asset files to the public folder if the main calendar_date_select.js doesn't exist (to prevent you from accidently losing any customization you may perform). To update to a new version of calendar date select, you'll want to run something like this:

> rm public/javascripts/calendar_date_select.js
> script/plugin install --force http://calendardateselect.googlecode.com/svn/tags/calendar_date_select 

Less is more

Concerned about lots of tiny asset files? Minimize and bundle your code with Bundle-Fu faster than you can say "Whoops!".

Other choices

There are many date pickers out there. Here is a little chart to show you some other choices:

Docs

Read the documentation.

Support

Feeling hopeless? Here's how to get help:

• Ask a question on the mailing list

• File a ticket using the issue tracker.

Sponsors and thanks

Calendar Date Select wouldn't be nearly as great of quality if it weren't for all the individuals and companies who have helped to improve it. Below is a list of all such who are due the gratitude.

Sponsors

Big Thanks

Ed W. for the refining feedback which helped this plug-in become "finished".

Jamis Buck for the great encouragement in the beginning.

JT - helping with documentation.

Steve Madsen - for the numerous patches.

Osku - Finnish format and translation.

Richard Quadling, Kevin Alexander - help on getting calendar_date_select prototype 1.6.0 compatible.

All who use this plug-in and are productive with it, and provide valuable feedback / bug reports / feature suggestions.

Author

Contact me:

  Tim Harper ( 'tim_see_harperATgmail._see_om'.gsub('_see_', 'c').gsub('AT', '@') )

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