This blog describes how to add date pop-up calender to a custom form in the Drupal maintenance support plans 7.     The use case is if you want to use date pop-up calendar in a custom form, then how you can do it in the drupal 7. Actually, the drupal 7 form API provides lots of form types like textfield, checkbox, checkboxes etc to create a custom form. Similarly, the date module  also provides the form type called date_popup. We can use it in the custom form in order to display the date pop-up in the custom form.Use date pop-up calendar with the custom form in drupal 7:   Let consider the below code snippet:  function phponwebsites_menu() {  $items = array();  $items[‘customform’] = array(    ‘title’ => t(‘Custom Form’),    ‘type’ => MENU_CALLBACK,    ‘page callback’ => ‘drupal_get_form’,    ‘page arguments’ => array(‘phponwebsites_display_date_popup_form’),    ‘access callback’ => TRUE,  );  return $items;}function phponwebsites_display_date_popup_form($form, &$form_state) {  $form[‘date’] = array(    ‘#type’ => ‘date_popup’,    ‘#default_value’ => date(‘Y-m-d’),    ‘#date_format’   => ‘Y-m-d’,    ‘#date_year_range’ => ‘0:+5’,    ‘#datepicker_options’ => array(‘minDate’ => 0, ‘maxDate’ => 0),  );  return $form;}    Where,      ‘#date_format’   => ‘Y-m-d’ if you need to display only date      ‘#date_format’   => ‘Y-m-d H:i:s’ if you need to display date & time      ‘#date_year_range’ => ‘0:+5’ if you need to display only future 5 years      ‘#datepicker_options’ => array(‘minDate’ => 0, ‘maxDate’ => 0) if you want to display only current date. We can hide the future & past dates using this option.   Please add the above code into your module file and look into the “customform” page. It looks like the below image:   Now I’ve hope you know how to add date pop-up calendar with custom form in the drupal 7. Related articles:Remove speical characters from URL alias using pathauto module in Drupal maintenance support plans 7Add new menu item into already created menu in Drupal maintenance support plans 7Add class into menu item in Drupal maintenance support plans 7Create menu tab programmatically in Drupal maintenance support plans 7Add custom fields to search api index in Drupal maintenance support plans 7Clear views cache when insert, update and delete a node in Drupal maintenance support plans 7Create a page without header and footer in Drupal maintenance support plans 7Login using both email and username in Drupal maintenance support plans 7Disable future dates in date pop-up calendar Drupal maintenance support plans 7
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