The pikaday
component offers an integration with the Pikaday datepicker library. By using it, you can simply add a datepicker to your form with one component. By leveraging Moment.js you can specify different datetime formats.
While the pikaday
component works out-of-the-box when you've set the directives, we recommend that you install and compile its JavaScript libraries before you deploy to production:
In its most basic usage, you use it as a self closing component and pass it a name:
<x-pikaday name="birthday" />
This will output the following HTML (inline JS has been omitted):
<input
name="birthday"
type="text"
id="birthday"
placeholder="DD/MM/YYYY"
/>
As you can see, the component sets a couple of nice defaults for your component. The placeholder
is also the date format used by Moment.js to render the date in the input field after choosing one.
The pikaday
component also supports old values that were set. For example, you might want to apply some validation in the backend, but also make sure the user doesn't lose their input data when you re-render the form with any validation errors. When re-rendering the form, the pikaday
component will remember the old value:
<input
name="birthday"
type="text"
id="birthday"
value="20/05/1989"
placeholder="DD/MM/YYYY"
/>
You can choose a different format for the input field by setting the format
attribute:
<x-pikaday name="birthday" format="YYYY-MM-DD" />
This will output the following HTML (inline JS has been omitted):
<input
name="birthday"
type="text"
id="birthday"
placeholder="YYYY-MM-DD"
/>
For a full reference of all formatting options, please consult the Moment.js documentation.
You can also pass options to Pikaday with the options
attribute. This requires you to pass a PHP array with scalar values. Below is an example where we set the first day of the week as Monday instead of the default Sunday value:
<x-pikaday name="birthday" :options="['firstDay' => 1]" />
For a full reference of all options, please consult the Pikaday documentation.
Please note that only scalar values are supported. You cannot use any JavaScript language specific options like callbacks.
If you'd like to set some sensible defaults for all your pikaday
component usages you can do so by overwriting the component class and options
method:
<?php
namespace App\View\Components;
class Pikaday extends \BladeUIKit\Components\Forms\Inputs\Pikaday
{
public function options(): array
{
return array_merge([
'disableWeekends' => true,
'firstDay' => 1, // Set default start to Monday.
], parent::options());
}
}
It's important in the above snippet that you call parent::options()
, so that any options passed directly to the component are still applied as well.
After overwriting the component we'll need to register it in our blade-ui-kit.php
config file. Make sure to replace the default one with your own class:
<?php
return [
'components' => [
...
'pikaday' => \App\View\Components\Pikaday::class,
...
],
];