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Hi. I've looked around the forums for an answer to my problem but can't seem to find what I'm looking for, or maybe I just can't understand some of what's going on. Anyway, I'm using chronoforms 3.0 and I downloaded the submitcontent form, which is really helpful btw. It works great, but I want my users to be able to submit a date that is used instead of the created date. I'm using the calendar popup in my form and the onSubmit has this:

$_POST['created'] = date("Y-m-d H:i:s");

So my question is how do I get my date input (date_3) to be entered into the created date DB field instead of the current date. I've tried different things, but everything i've done has just given me a bunch of zeroes for dates. I appreciate any help. I know from looking at other postings that dealing with dates can get a little hairy.

Hi mchmaster,

whats the format of the date created using the calendar plugin ? try this code in the onsubmit:

$_POST['created'] = date("Y-m-d H:i:s", strtotime($_POST['date_3']));

let me know!

Regards,
Max

Thank you so much! That was exactly what I needed!

Great, please replace : $_POST['created'] by JRequest::getVar('created') and the same for the date field!

that's better for cleaning the posted data!

Cheers
Max

Hi, Max.

With $_POST it works.
But with JRequest::getVar('cb_myfield') I get:

Fatal error: Can't use function return value in write context in /var/www/vhosts/example.de/httpdocs/components/com_chronocontact/libraries/customcode.php(52) : eval()'d code on line 2

Is it really important to change to JRequest::getVar?

Thanks.

Leon

Hi Leon,

my typo, here you need to use:

JRequest::setVar('created', date("Y-m-d H:i:s", strtotime(JRequest::getVar('date_3'))));

Cheers
Max

Yes. it works.

Thanks!