提交后JqueryUI Datepicker SelectedDate

Question

I have an inline datepicker, which populates am input textbox.

$("#left-calendar").datepicker({
    altField: "#left-date-text"
});

left-date-text is in a form, which with a submit button submits to a php script. The date works great $date=$_POST['d'];.

<input type="text" id="left-date-text" placeholder="Data" value='<?php echo $date; ?>' name="d" />

After submit, The inline selects today's date, which automatically populates #left-date-text. I want this to be the selected date ($date). I added a value of echo $date but it doesn't work. Seems like the jquery populates the textbox when it is rendered.

Answer 1

You can try to add defaultDate : '$date' to the datepicker definition, so if there's a date stored in $date, the picker will use it as default date.

EDIT: You can use the setter for the default date property of the datePicker, as shown in the jQueryUI documentation. Something like

`echo "<script>$('#left-calendar').
    datepicker('option', 'defaultDate', '$date');</script>"`

in the body.