Prepopulate datepicker field with CB date

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Hi there

My form tries to prepopulate as many fields as possible.
One I don't seem to get to work is a datepicker field:

$form->data['foedsel1'] = date_format( date_create_from_format( 'Y-m-d', $user->get('cb_birthday'), 'd-m-Y' ) );

The other way works as it should:

$user->set( 'cb_birthday', date_format( date_create_from_format( 'd-m-Y', $form->data['foedsel1'] ), 'Y-m-d' ) ) ;

But the debugger simply shows this field as empty in the load of the form.
Is that because the date format is wrong for the datepicker field, or maybe it can't be prepopulated?

fribse · Accepted Answer

Of course you are right, so I broke it down, and now it works, the right conversion looks like this:

$form->data['foedsel1'] = date_format( date_create_from_format( 'Y-m-d' , $user->get('cb_birthday') ) , 'd-m-Y' ) ;

Though I do see this when activating it (with error reporting set to maximum of course):

Notice: Only variables should be assigned by reference in .../custom_code/custom_code.php(20) : eval()'d code on line 17

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Prepopulate datepicker field with CB date