Increase date range on dropdown

Can anybody please shed some light on this issue?

You should edit lib_functions.php.

Search for the call to
wp_localize_script(‘cforms-calendar’, ‘cforms2_cal’, array(
…
) );

You can add a key => value pair to the array parameter with the key set to ‘yearRange’ and the value set according to https://api.jqueryui.com/datepicker/#option-yearRange

Example: ‘yearRange’ => ‘2000:2050’

Hi bgermann!

I don’t understand exactly, what else I have to do to get the year range work.

As suggested by you, I added the key ‘yearRange’ => ‘2000:2050‘ in the file lib_functions.php.

But after saving this edit, I can’t load my site anymore.
So, do I have to enter somewhere else something more?

Thank you in advance about a timely response!
Chipy

OK, sorry, solved it & got it to work!
I just forgot to put a coma in the end of the new line of the key.

Sorry.

I’m also using this hard-coded year-range in the lib_functions.php and in former versions in the cforms.php.
It’s working well, but after each update of cforms it has to be hard-coded again.
Would it be possible to add these parameters to the global datepicker settings in the admin menu?
Thanks, Oliver!

I second Kurti75’s request.

Adding this as an option which won’t be overwritten would be great, ideally using a +/- counter instead of specific years in the selector.

I made some changes in the cforms-global-settings.php and the lib_functions.php to:
– Enable month selection drop down in global settings
– Set the datepickers year range in the global settings
– Set the year which is shown first when the datepicher pops up

I think it would be great to add these changes to the next cforms version!

Here are the changes:
in the lib_functions.php:
added this lines after line 171:

'changeMonth'      => $nav[7]==1,
'yearRange'        => stripslashes($nav[8]),
'defaultDate'      => stripslashes($nav[9]),

in the cforms-global-settings.php:
added this lines after line 89:

$nav[7]=cforms2_get_boolean_from_request('cforms_dp_Mbuttons');
$nav[8]=cforms2_get_from_request('cforms_dp_yearrange');
$nav[9]=cforms2_get_from_request('cforms_dp_popupyear');

and this code after line 255:

<tr class="ob">
<?php $nav = $cformsSettings['global']['cforms_dp_nav']; ?>
<td class="obL"></td>
<td class="obR"><input class="allchk" type="checkbox" id="cforms_dp_Mbuttons" name="cforms_dp_Mbuttons" <?php if($nav[7]=="1") echo "checked=\"checked\""; ?>/><label for="cforms_dp_Mbuttons"><strong><?php _e('Enable month selection drop down', 'cforms2') ?></strong></label></td>
</tr>
<tr class="ob">
<td class="obL"><label for="cforms_dp_yearrange"><strong><?php _e('Yearrange', 'cforms2'); ?></strong></label></td>
<td class="obR"><input type="text" id="cforms_dp_yearrange" name="cforms_dp_yearrange" value="<?php echo stripslashes(htmlspecialchars( $nav[8] )); ?>"/></td>
</tr>
<tr class="ob">
<td class="obL"><label for="cforms_dp_popupyear"><strong><?php _e('PopUpYear', 'cforms2'); ?></strong></label></td>
<td class="obR"><input type="text" id="cforms_dp_popupyear" name="cforms_dp_popupyear" value="<?php echo stripslashes(htmlspecialchars( $nav[9] )); ?>"/></td>
</tr>

Thanks @kurti75. I will give it a try.

Thanks for the update in the new cforms version 14.12,
but how do I use more than one option?
One works well but two or more not:

Could you please give me a hint how to seperate the options, I tried a lot but unfortunately without success.

{
"changeMonth": true,
"changeYear": true
}

Thanks

Your example is right and works for me. You should give a URL with this configuration that shows just one of year or month dropdown to help me figure it out.

I tried using this and it threw a syntax error, with no way to retrieve the settings I’d using previously:

{
"changeMonth": true,
"changeYear": true,
"firstDay": 1,
"maxDate": "+1m",
"minDate": "-20y”,
“yearRange”: “2000:2020”
}

On one of my sites I have multiple forms, including one which asks for a booking date and the visitor’s date of birth. Would it be possible to implement something in future which allowed for different settings on each date field?

@rsimpson You have five wrong quotes in the last two key:value pairs in your JSON.

It is possible to implement a per field setting. I will keep this as a task for later.

Well spotted sir! Don’t you just hate rich text?

Got it working now.

If you manage to implement a per field setting that would be absolutely ideal ??