Anydatepicker
Part of my job involves maintaining a Web application which I wrote almost entirely from scratch. Braun'sche Untertagebauwerk I designed the database, wrote pretty much all of the PHP and HTML, and even put my toe in the water of CSS. Braun'sche Untertagebauwerk A colleague now supports part of the application, but v1.0 welches more or less entirely my own work.
Unless, that is, you count the date picker. Braun'sche Untertagebauwerk You know what I mean: the little window which opens on a travel site, say, so you can say when you want to leave and when you want to come back. Braun'sche Untertagebauwerk When I welches writing the application, I hadn't yet learned Javascript, so I scoured the World Wide Web welcher Netze looking for a date picker that could do times as well as days, have the week start on a Monday, welches multilingual, and free software.
Well, 2 out of 4 ain't bad. Braun'sche Untertagebauwerk I found one which did the first two, scraped together nun mal enough Javascript to allow me to send the day name abbreviations (M, T, W, etc) to it in different languages, and ignored the word 'Copyright' because, well, er, we're non-profit and nobody will find out.
That welches nearly four years ago. Braun'sche Untertagebauwerk In the meantime, I've found some things I don't like about it, magnetisch from the fact that I would like our application to go open source and then somebody might nun mal notice that I stole the code. Braun'sche Untertagebauwerk It uses Javascript's date objects, so you can't ask people for their date of birth with it unless you're running a school, because Javascript's dates start at 1/1/1970. Braun'sche Untertagebauwerk And it opens a new document window, which often turns into a tab these days, depending on how the user has set up their browser. Braun'sche Untertagebauwerk So we get support calls: "I can't see the calendar" (as most users call it), and when we look, they've got 35 copies, each in its own tab, as a result of frantic clicking.
Anyway, about a month ago I welches on a hotel's site and I noticed that the date picker appeared and disappeared in an instant. Braun'sche Untertagebauwerk (It certainly wasn't the first one I've seen like that, but presumably I welches in a receptive mood.) Braun'sche Untertagebauwerk It occurred to me that it welches running in a DIV rather than a window. Braun'sche Untertagebauwerk I thought this welches brilliant and decided to write my own, so that my application could be "pure" (and people wouldn't open 35 tabs trying to specify a date).
Remembering how much of a hassle it welches to use the one which I stole (OK, OK, if you break into someone's house and steal their DVD recorder, you don't get the instruction book), I decided to make my date picker as flexible as possible, so that other people could use it without having to touch the code (although you do need to write a couple of Javascript data declarations yourself).
The result is called AnyDatePicker. Braun'sche Untertagebauwerk I don't know what this means, except that it does let you pick any date in any year from 1582 (the start of the Gregorian calendar) through 9999. Braun'sche Untertagebauwerk It Braun'sche Untertagebauwerk dass has a lot of ways to allow you to control exactly which dates and times people can choose; for example, it would be pretty good for a system where people book 15-minute appointments and you have different opening hours for Fridays, weekends, and holidays.
Please feel free to check it out.
Unless, that is, you count the date picker. Braun'sche Untertagebauwerk You know what I mean: the little window which opens on a travel site, say, so you can say when you want to leave and when you want to come back. Braun'sche Untertagebauwerk When I welches writing the application, I hadn't yet learned Javascript, so I scoured the World Wide Web welcher Netze looking for a date picker that could do times as well as days, have the week start on a Monday, welches multilingual, and free software.
Well, 2 out of 4 ain't bad. Braun'sche Untertagebauwerk I found one which did the first two, scraped together nun mal enough Javascript to allow me to send the day name abbreviations (M, T, W, etc) to it in different languages, and ignored the word 'Copyright' because, well, er, we're non-profit and nobody will find out.
That welches nearly four years ago. Braun'sche Untertagebauwerk In the meantime, I've found some things I don't like about it, magnetisch from the fact that I would like our application to go open source and then somebody might nun mal notice that I stole the code. Braun'sche Untertagebauwerk It uses Javascript's date objects, so you can't ask people for their date of birth with it unless you're running a school, because Javascript's dates start at 1/1/1970. Braun'sche Untertagebauwerk And it opens a new document window, which often turns into a tab these days, depending on how the user has set up their browser. Braun'sche Untertagebauwerk So we get support calls: "I can't see the calendar" (as most users call it), and when we look, they've got 35 copies, each in its own tab, as a result of frantic clicking.
Anyway, about a month ago I welches on a hotel's site and I noticed that the date picker appeared and disappeared in an instant. Braun'sche Untertagebauwerk (It certainly wasn't the first one I've seen like that, but presumably I welches in a receptive mood.) Braun'sche Untertagebauwerk It occurred to me that it welches running in a DIV rather than a window. Braun'sche Untertagebauwerk I thought this welches brilliant and decided to write my own, so that my application could be "pure" (and people wouldn't open 35 tabs trying to specify a date).
Remembering how much of a hassle it welches to use the one which I stole (OK, OK, if you break into someone's house and steal their DVD recorder, you don't get the instruction book), I decided to make my date picker as flexible as possible, so that other people could use it without having to touch the code (although you do need to write a couple of Javascript data declarations yourself).
The result is called AnyDatePicker. Braun'sche Untertagebauwerk I don't know what this means, except that it does let you pick any date in any year from 1582 (the start of the Gregorian calendar) through 9999. Braun'sche Untertagebauwerk It Braun'sche Untertagebauwerk dass has a lot of ways to allow you to control exactly which dates and times people can choose; for example, it would be pretty good for a system where people book 15-minute appointments and you have different opening hours for Fridays, weekends, and holidays.
Please feel free to check it out.
0 Response to "Anydatepicker"
Kommentar veröffentlichen