Megan — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 15:21:19 +0000

timjpriebe;211230 wrote: Oh, and a quick search on Google didn't reveal much. But I'm sure you've already tried that, Megan. I know I've found a month listing before, but couldn't find it this time.

I tried searching but maybe I wasn't using the right terms or something, I don't know.

(I'm not actually doing a country list, was just using that as an example)

That would be good content for the new site! I'll put that into basecamp.

Abhishek Reddy — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 15:11:21 +0000

The dojo toolkit includes a few widgets like a date picker. They're Javascript-heavy, rich form elements though, and I don't know if they degrade gracefully to normal form elements. There are assorted other scripts on the web like it, but they're probably overcomplicating things in this case.

Check out these posts and comments on 456 Berea Street and Bruce Lawson regarding country lists in forms.

timjpriebe — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 14:54:00 +0000

Sounds like a good possible section in the new site... I'd love to help create a bunch of pre-made form elements.

Oh, and a quick search on Google didn't reveal much. But I'm sure you've already tried that, Megan. I know I've found a month listing before, but couldn't find it this time.

Megan — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 14:14:17 +0000

I don't think I made myself clear - I need a birthdate field, right? I don't want to type out all the months and days to choose from. I want to find that someplace to copy and paste. Other people are writing the backend on this so I just need the front end part for right now.

It would be the same if, say, you needed a list of countries to pick from, or US states or whatever.

teammatt3 — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 01:07:20 +0000

What? Copy + paste doesn't work for you ? I think Busy has a good idea, in fact, I think I'll try and code one tomorrow. It's a good excuse to play around with PHP.

Busy — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 22:19:59 +0000

How a bout a function or a class (php), then when you want a form field you just do something like:

$form_field(type, name, length, id ...);