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09-18-2010, 11:05 AM

[eluser]psychonetics[/eluser]
What I'm trying to do

I have a date dropdown on my signup form for my website. PHP is used to generate the dropdown data. Rather than have the data in my controller I put it in a helper because I will want to use it again through out my website.

Below is a copy of the code on my controller, helper and view.
I have also copied and pasted the text from my browser when I load my signup form page.

Controller

Code:
&lt;?php if ( ! defined('BASEPATH')) exit('No direct script access allowed');

if ( ! function_exists('getdate'))

{

function getdate() {

//Setup days

 $data['days']['FALSE'] = 'Day';

 //Setup months

 $data['months'] = array('FALSE' => 'Month',

                 '1'  => 'Jan',

                 '2'  => 'Feb',

                 '3'  => 'Mar',

                 '4'  => 'Apr',

                 '5'  => 'May',

                 '6'  => 'Jun',

                 '7'  => 'Jul',

                 '8'  => 'Aug',

                 '9'  => 'Sep',

                 '10' => 'Oct',

                 '11' => 'Nov',

                 '12' => 'Dec'

                );

 for($i=1;$i<=31;$i++){

    $data['days'][$i] = $i;

 }

 //Setup years

 $start_year = date("Y",mktime(0,0,0,date("m"),date("d"),date("Y")-100)); //Adjust 100 to however many year back you want

 $data['years']['FALSE'] = 'Year';

 for ($i=$start_year;$i<=date("Y");++$i) {

    $data['years'][$i] = $i;

}

}

}

controller:

Code:
&lt;?php

class Join extends Controller {

    public function  __construct() {

        parent::controller();

        $this->load->helper(array('form','url'));

        $this->load->library('form_validation');

    }

    public function index() {

        $this->load->helper('join/datepicker');

        $this->datepicker->getdate();

        $this->load->view('join',$data);

    }

}

here's my corresponding code in my form in the view file:

Code:
<!DOCTYPE html>

&lt;html lang="en"&gt;

&lt;head&gt;

    &lt;meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"&gt;

    &lt;title&gt;Signup Form&lt;/title&gt;

&lt;/head&gt;

&lt;body&gt;

        &lt;?php echo form_open('join/submit'); ?&gt;

        <p>

            <label for="first_name">First Name: </label>

            &lt;?php echo form_input('first_name'); ?&gt;

        </p> 

        <p>

            <label for="last_name">Last Name: </label>

            &lt;?php echo form_input('last_name'); ?&gt;

        </p>             

            <p>

            <label for="email">E-mail: </label>

            &lt;?php echo form_input('email'); ?&gt;

        </p>

        <p>

            <label for="password">Password: </label>

            &lt;?php echo form_password('password'); ?&gt;

        </p>

           <p>

            <label for="birthday">Birthday: </label>

            &lt;?php echo form_dropdown('days',$days). " " . form_dropdown('months',$months). " " . form_dropdown('years',$years); ?&gt;

        </p>

                 &lt;!-- gender drop down to go here --&gt;

            &lt;?php echo form_submit('submit','Sign Up'); ?&gt;

        &lt;?php echo form_close(); ?&gt;

&lt;/body&gt;

&lt;/html&gt;

Here's the message i get when I load my page with the form on it..
A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: Notice

Message: Undefined property: Join::$datepicker

Filename: controllers/join.php

Line Number: 18

Fatal error: Call to a member function getdate() on a non-object in /**my file path**/ on line 18

So I see some variable(s) is/are not defined. I've been googling all day and finally decided to post and get some help.

Thanks in advance

09-18-2010, 11:53 AM

[eluser]bobbob[/eluser]
Have you thought of using jquery ui's datepicker? It is so easy to implement.

Then very easy to handle in your controller.

http://jqueryui.com/demos/datepicker/

09-18-2010, 12:19 PM

[eluser]psychonetics[/eluser]
Yep

but I would have to do some customization to make just the drop down show.. for now I would prefer to learn what I'm doing wrong so I can use it to help me in the future with other tasks.