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title: How to add a date popup calendar onto a custom form
nav: blog
use:
- posts
slug: add-date-popup-calendar-custom-form
tags:
- forms
- form-api
- date
- calendar
- drupal-7
- drupal-planet
- drupal
First, I need to download the [Date](http://drupal.org/project/date "Date module on Drupal.org") module, and make my module dependent on date_popup by adding the following line into my module's .info file.
dependencies[] = date_popup
Within my form builder function:
~~~php
$form['date'] = array(
'#title' => t('Arrival date'),
// Provided by the date_popup module
'#type' => 'date_popup',
// Uses the PHP date() format - http://php.net/manual/en/function.date.php
'#date_format' => 'j F Y',
// Limits the year range to the next two upcoming years
'#date_year_range' => '0:+2',
// Default value must be in 'Y-m-d' format.
'#default_value' => date('Y-m-d', time()),
);
~~~
