Editor's built in datetime field type
provides a UI widget to assist with the user input of both dates and times - the components that are displayed in the input control are automatically determined
from the format string.
In this case we have two fields which contain both date and time components, shown in different formats to illustrate how the formatting options operate. The Updated date field is shown in a US style date format with a 12 hour clock while the Reigstered date is shown with a more Euro style format and a 24 hour clock.
The formats are defined by the momentjs library which must be included for the datetime field type to operate with date time formatted
strings.
The Javascript shown below is used to initialise the table shown in this example:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 | var editor; // use a global for the submit and return data rendering in the examples$(document).ready(function() { editor = new $.fn.dataTable.Editor( { ajax: '../../controllers/datetime.php', table: '#example', fields: [ { label: 'First name:', name: 'first_name' }, { label: 'Last name:', name: 'last_name' }, { label: 'Updated date:', name: 'updated_date', type: 'datetime', def: function () { return new Date(); }, format: 'MM-DD-YYYY h:mm A', fieldInfo: 'US style m-d-y date input with 12 hour clock', opts: { minutesIncrement: 5 } }, { label: 'Registered date:', name: 'registered_date', type: 'datetime', def: function () { return new Date(); }, format: 'D MMM YYYY HH:mm', fieldInfo: 'Euro style date with 24 hour clock', opts: { hoursAvailable: [ 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 ], minutesAvailable: [ 5, 10, 20, 25, 26, 45 ] } } ] } ); $('#example').DataTable( { dom: 'Bfrtip', layout: { topLeft: 'buttons' }, ajax: '../../controllers/datetime.php', columns: [ { data: 'first_name' }, { data: 'last_name' }, { data: 'updated_date' }, { data: 'registered_date' } ], select: true, buttons: [ { extend: 'create', editor: editor }, { extend: 'edit', editor: editor }, { extend: 'remove', editor: editor } ] } );} ); |
In addition to the above code, the following Javascript library files are loaded for use in this example:
Editor submits and retrieves information by Ajax requests. The two blocks below show the data that Editor submits and receives, to and from the server. This is updated live as you interact with Editor so you can see what is submitted.
The following shows the data that has been submitted to the server when a request is made to add, edit or delete data from the table.
// No data yet submittedThe following shows the data that has been returned by the server in response to the data submitted on the left and is then acted upon.
// No data yet received