Blind Date - use human readable dates in the CP & SAEFs

I’ve got an issue where SAEF Calendar plugin v1.1 is inputing dates into a field with 2 spaces between the date and time and EE is kicking it out stating it’s an incorrect format (manually removing the second space corrects the issue). I’ve got Blind Date v1.2.5 installed which from my understanding will force EE to ‘tolerate’ this.

Wierd thing is if I manually type in the date with two spaces it in between, it works. Since I cannot control the format at which the SAEF Calendar plug puts in the date (OK, I haven’t parsed the PHP yet), but just wondering if this sparks any ideas in anyone.

That’s strange. I’ve been meaning to update this anyway so that it will throw a more appropriate error message if your date doesn’t parse. I can fix your problem when I do that - I can probably do it over the weekend (I hope!).

If I get a chance, I’ll try to get in and have some output errors to see if I can’t detect the exact problem for more info. New dad here, so time is a bit short as of late.

Congats 😊 I’m expecting my second any day now.

You have time on the weekend with one?

Hah - not really! “Have time” kind of takes on new meanings with family… It’s more like the twilight zone around here actually. You’d think the second one would mean less work getting ready wouldn’t you?

I think just doing a regex replacing multiple spaces with one should fix your specific problem and that is easy to put in. I really should be scrubbing the data using built-in EE functions and I’m wondering if that in itself might not fix the issue - I’m curious to find out.

leejb, just out of curiosity, what browser are you using? Have you tried using a different one - do you see the same error?

Here is a new version of the extension. Can you see if this fixes your problem? If it does I’ll post it as a new version to the original post… I haven’t worked on the error output formatting, but wanted to see if this helps your problem.

EDIT: Whoops - I had the regex wrong. Here’s one that should work:

After applying 1.26 I’ve gone through a battery of various format entering and have not been able to get the error to re-occur. Thanks for the great plug and super fast response! BTW.. it was occuring in both IE v7 and Firefox v3.

Glad it worked 😊

Hi, I found a couple of undefined variables around line 138 in the ext. file:

$str = $REGX->xss_clean($str);
$recipients = preg_replace("/[;,:\s]+/", ',', $recipients);

I’ve initialised them thusly and everything seems to be working again..

$str = '';
$str = $REGX->xss_clean($str);
$recipients = '';
$recipients = preg_replace("/[;,:\s]+/", ',', $recipients);

Although I’m not sure what they’re there for which is a little worrying 😊

Also I’ve noticed that the top of this thread (no.1 result in google for me) still shows v1.2.5.

Just a heads up.. Cheers for the extension.. US dates are very confusing for us Africans.

Hi Luke - thanks for finding that. In all honesty those lines of code shouldn’t even be in there (I cut and paste them just for reference while I was adding some code for leejb to fix a problem he identified on the last page. I just forgot to erase them again). They don’t actually do anything at all - I’ve removed them.

Sorry for the sloppy coding. I’ve updated Blind Date to 1.2.7 and added it to the first post of this thread.

Glad you like the extension Luke 😊

Hi

This plugin looks like what I will need for my project. Thanks for doing this!

I was wondering - how do I go about using this in a SAEF? Are there instructions that I may have missed? Aside from installing it, I don’t know what code to insert in the saef.

Thanks

Hi Lotenberg - this should work fine in a SAEF, you don’t need to put in any special code. If you’re having issues definitely let me know 😊

Hi Brian,

If the expiration_field is blank, is there a way to have it filled in with a date?

i.e. entry date: jan 11 06:00

If expiration date is left blank then expiration date would be forced to january 11 11:59PM

thanks