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45 lines
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---
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title: How to add a date popup calendar onto a custom form
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date: 2012-05-23
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excerpt: How to use a date popup calendar within your custom module.
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tags:
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- forms
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- form-api
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- date
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- calendar
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- drupal-7
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- drupal-planet
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- drupal
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---
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How to use a date popup calendar within your custom module.
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First, I need to download the
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[Date](http://drupal.org/project/date 'Date module on Drupal.org') module, and
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make my module dependent on date_popup by adding the following line into my
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module's .info file.
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```language-ini
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dependencies[] = date_popup
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```
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Within my form builder function:
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```language-php
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$form['date'] = array(
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'#title' => t('Arrival date'),
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// Provided by the date_popup module
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'#type' => 'date_popup',
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// Uses the PHP date() format - http://php.net/manual/en/function.date.php
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'#date_format' => 'j F Y',
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// Limits the year range to the next two upcoming years
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'#date_year_range' => '0:+2',
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// Default value must be in 'Y-m-d' format.
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'#default_value' => date('Y-m-d', time()),
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);
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```
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