Need help with setting up DOB field and setting age restriction...

Hi,

Could anyone help with adding a field to an existing application form that requires the user to give their date of birth and if not over the age of 21 have a message display?
Ideally the DOB would be a datePicker or something similarly user friendly.
The dates would have to go back to allow for users over the age of 70 and the 21 years restriction would have to take in account the actual 'day' and not just the year. For instance if I was 21 yesterday and filling out the form my age should be accepted.

Hope that makes some sense but if anyone can help please feel free to pm me or respond to this thread. The budget isn't great but it is a paying job.

Cheers

J

FormIt has validates for minValue and maxValue, but I don't know if they will work with dates (and they won't give you a datepicker): http://rtfm.modx.com/display/ADDON/FormIt.Validators

NewsPublisher will give you a datepicker, but no min or max checking (though that could probably be added with some custom JS. There's an example of a booking system that does mess with date ranges in the NewsPublisher package (though I didn't write it).

The best solution would be to use JavaScript for validation. Something like this code for use with the JQueryUI datepicker: http://www.phpeveryday.com/articles/jQuery-UI-Minimum-and-maximum-dates-For-Datepicker-P1018.html


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Thanks for this BobRay.
I'll give this a go but it's a bit beyond my knowledge to be honest so if you want/can help at all, like i said it's a paid job.
Please pm if anyone can help out with this as i'm sure i'll still need it.
I'll stick the solution here once complete.

Cheers

I understand. I don't have time to take that on (and you can probably find someone who is better at JS date arithmetic than I am) .


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