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I’ve looked all over for this and can’t seem to find anything for this. I’ve also found an unresolved similar question about this in stack exchange from many months ago that wasn’t answered, so I thought I’d put this forward again.

Is there a simple date picker that will work as a Grid field that will output ONLY the date without the time? All I need is Month, Day, and Year in any order so I can use the search: option in the Grid loop without having to use the “format” parameter.

I know there is a way to build a fieldtype to do this, but I’m not this advanced (yet) with PHP (still learning on Lynda and looking at this stuff makes my head spin, so I think I’m still pretty far off from understanding it!)

I have attempted to modify two existing fieldtype add-ons as well as the default date fieldtype without any luck. There’s always some issue: the field type won’t display datepicker when in Grid, the fieldtype won’t output properly in the front-end, or the fieldtype just spits out tons of PHP errors.

Finally I want to point out that there are quite a few people who have been dealing with this issue and I honestly cannot believe that this is still an issue. Why isn’t there a field type available like this built into ee? Matching up dates without a very specific timestamp seems like a pretty ordinary task to want to accomplish without having to hack code all up.

This is an add-on I would gladly pay for if it were available on devot:ee! (hopefully someone wants to make a quick buck)

I would HIGHLY appreciate any help!

Hi Victor

You might want to check out Event Helper. Have used this one - not in a grid in my case. It should work in a grid according to the compatibility information.

Werner

Werner,

Thanks for the solution! I was able to use the field type from Event Helper to achieve the solution that I was looking for:

{grid search:dateinfo="<?php echo strtotime('1/2/15'); ?>"}
     <b>date2: {grid:title}

        <b>dateinfo: {grid:dateinfo}


    {/grid}

The actual Event Helper extension still needs to be updated for the new EE version (I’m running 2.9.2) or it will create PHP errors, so I recommend installing only the field type.