Date masking by cflocale

[John Chivers]

I'm trying to create a form in my localised web application which will use the cflocale value to mask a text based date-input field.

I don't want to use a calendar tool as the date selection method, but would like to be able to use something along the following lines:

<cfinput type="text" name="myDate" id="myDate" required="yes" mask="#localeDateMask#" message="Enter a valid date in the format #localeDateMask" validateat="onsubmit,onserver" />

Ideally, I was wondering if I can populate the localeDateMask variable from the underlying java locale setting. Otherwise, I'm going to have to create a look-up table to get this value for each possible locale. No problem doing that, but I'd rather not re-invent the wheel!

[John Chivers]

<cfinput type="text" name="myDate" id="myDate" required="yes" mask="#localeDateMask#" message="Enter a valid date in the format #localeDateMask#" validateat="onsubmit,onserver" />

[tooMuchTrouble]

you mean something like this?

<cfscript> formatStyle=0; // full 0--->3 short thaiLocale=createObject("java","java.util.Locale").init("th","TH"); dF=createObject("java","java.text.DateFormat").getDateInstance(formatStyle,thaiLocale); writeoutput("#dF.toPattern()# <br>for example: #df.Format(now())#");

</cfscript

[John Chivers]

Thanks for your prompt answer, Paul.

I'm not sure if your example was truncated or I'm being stupid.

Where is the df variable populated in your example?

[tooMuchTrouble · Accepted solution]

guess it got truncated via email gateway. lets see if the web forum works better.

<cfscript>
formatStyle=0; // full 0--->3 short
thaiLocale=createObject("java","java.util.Locale").init("th","TH");
dF=createObject("java","java.text.DateFormat").getDateInstance(formatStyle,thaiLocale);
writeoutput("#dF.toPattern()# <br>for example: #df.Format(now())#");
</cfscript>

[John Chivers]

Thanks ever so much, Paul.

#dF.toPattern()# is exactly what I'm after in your example and I should be able to take things from there.

As ever, you are THE MAN when it comes localisation issues.