How can I remove past years from the date picker?

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iamthez
Member

My client sells tickets/cruises, that sort of thing. Obviously, she can't sell them for years that have passed... Is there a way to remove past years from the date picker?

Posted 12 years ago on Monday July 30, 2012 | Permalink
David Peralty

This is the datepicker that we use:
http://jqueryui.com/demos/datepicker/

Over on the right hand side, there are details on how to restrict the dates under Examples. You would want to put your JavaScript code for this in the header.php of your theme.

Posted 12 years ago on Monday July 30, 2012 | Permalink
Kevin Flahaut
Administrator
The datepicker is straight from the jQuery UI library so you can pass parameters in your theme header or script files to modify it.

http://docs.jquery.com/UI/API/1.8/Datepicker

This is probably what you're looking for

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1786411/jquery-datepicker-to-prevent-past-date
```
$("#datepicker").datepicker({ minDate: 0 });
```
Posted 12 years ago on Monday July 30, 2012 | Permalink
iamthez
Member

I've tried a few things, but none of them seem to work. Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong? Example: http://directconnexiontravel.com/?page_id=25

Posted 12 years ago on Monday July 30, 2012 | Permalink
David Peralty
Can you try the following:
```
$(document).ready(function () {
		$(".hasDatepicker").datepicker({ minDate: 0+ })
	});
```
Posted 12 years ago on Monday July 30, 2012 | Permalink
iamthez
Member

Doesn't seem to make any difference for me...

Posted 12 years ago on Monday July 30, 2012 | Permalink
Chris Hajer
Key Master
You have a syntax error in the JavaScript you pasted into the head:
```
Timestamp: 7/31/2012 1:56:26 AM
Error: SyntaxError: syntax error
Source File: http://directconnexiontravel.com/?page_id=25
Line: 39, Column: 47
Source Code:
  $(".hasDatepicker").datepicker({ minDate: 0+ })
```
You will also soon have a "$ is not defined" error because $ is reserved for Prototype in WordPress. Please try this version:
```
<script type="text/javascript">
var $j = jQuery.noConflict();
$j(document).ready(function () {
	$j(".hasDatepicker").datepicker({ minDate: '0' })
});
</script>
```
There seems to be lots of conflicting information online of how to format the minDate:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1786411/jquery-datepicker-to-prevent-past-date

Other variations of this line you can try:
```
[js]
	$j(".hasDatepicker").datepicker({ minDate: +0 })
```
```
[js]
	$j(".hasDatepicker").datepicker({ minDate: 0, })
```
Posted 12 years ago on Tuesday July 31, 2012 | Permalink
iamthez
Member

I've tried all of these syntax variations, but no luck so far. Thanks for trying, though.

Posted 12 years ago on Friday August 3, 2012 | Permalink
David Peralty

Can you try changing it to .datepicker instead of .hasDatepicker just out of curiosity?

Posted 12 years ago on Friday August 3, 2012 | Permalink