I wrote a formular for our theatre, where people can reserve tickets for several different plays on many different days on some different stages. I would like to add a funktion that you only can reserve tickets until one day before the event starts. So, for example, if someone would like to see someting on next Sunday, he won´t be able to reserve a ticket after Saturday.
Instead of the "submit"-button there should be a message that it is not possible to make a reservation for this particulary event. Unfortunately you can´t hide the submit-button at this stage.
I know, form builder has a "date"-Funktion, but I don´t know how this could help me solving my problem. Maybe you have an idea or write it down for further updates.

Kind regards
Rainer

I've messed around with datepicker a little bit in a custom script for a site. Here's an example where I'm blocking past dates and only allowing Sunday, Monday, Wednesday and Saturday.
http://ericrohloff.com/coffeecup/ccforu … ickerdays/

Eric, this is very useful! Just as Rainer I'm working on a website with different products that are available only on certain days of the week. In our case it concerns bike tours through the city of Rome with a preset schedule per tour. We request our clients to book at least two days in advance.
Each tour has it's own product page. To make your script even more perfect I would like the datepicker to be visible on each product page so that our clients only need to click on the selected date. From there they would then be forwarded to the form with the date field already filled. I haven't tried this out yet, but I will in the next few days.

If your looking for that then i would use a simple form with your own custom datepicker library included.
Head of page with tour product

Body of page with tour product


Now on the page with your form builder form you'll want to use the $_POST['resvdate'] to populate the forms input value.



I have a way doing this through $_SESSION also.

Thanks, I will experiment with this during the weekend.

Hi Eric,

I have experimented with your suggestion. I'm slowly moving forward, but not there yet.... I now have the datepicker set up on a tour product page (testpage http://www.opdefietsinrome.nl/testform/ … mTour.html , it's down at the bottom - I still have the css to work on). Selecting a date and pushing the send button ("reserveren") forwards you to the reservation form (http://www.opdefietsinrome.nl/testform/reserveren.html), but I cannot get the date field (in my case item93_date_1) populated. I have added "resvdate"

Form:
<div class="fb-input-date">
<input name="Datum-Pref_date" class="datepicker" id="item93_date_1" required type="text" data-hint="" value="?php if(isset($_POST["resvdate"])) { echo $_POST["resvdate"]; } ?" />

Product page:
<form action="reserveren.html" method="POST">
<input type="text" name="resvdate" class="datepicker" value="Kies een datum" />
<input id="submit" type="submit" name="" value="Reserveren" />

Scripts
<script type="text/javascript" src="js/jquery-1.9.1.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="js/jquery-ui-1.10.3.custom.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="js/ui.datepicker-nl.js"></script>
</form>

Do you have any suggestions?

I would first try removing the <script> code from the form iframe code that the formbuilder populates.
So your code for embedding the form on your page will look like this.

Are you using the formbuilders own myformname.php? Or did you make your own?

I removed the script tags + code, but unfortunately that didn't work. I also corrected a typo in the input value to

<input name="Datum-Pref_date" class="datepicker" id="item93_date_1" required type="text" data-hint="" value="<?php if(isset($_POST["resvdate"])) { echo $_POST["resvdate"]; } ?> "/> , but now the browser assumes the tag is closed after the first > so "/> shows up below the formfield.

What am I missing here?

If you replace the myformname.php with your own you would be able to capture the post variable. The form builder relies on $_SESSION variables. Let me look at my setup where I used those instead.

Hi Eric,

Did you get a change to look into your setup? I have been testing the link between the datepicker and the form field on myformname.html by using altField, but I haven't yet found a way to link altField to another page.