[5.1] New Date and Datetime fields

[Fedik]

Summary of Changes

Add 2 new input date (DateField class), and datetime-local (DatetimeField class). Fix Time field to support filter.

Links to MDN docs:
datetime-local: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/input/datetime-local
date: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/input/date

Testing Instructions

Add fields in some XML, example in to mod_custom params:

<field type="date" name="date" label="Date"/>
<field type="time" name="time" label="Time" filter="SERVER_UTC"/>
<field type="datetime" name="datetime" label="Date Time" filter="SERVER_UTC"/>

Expected result AFTER applying this Pull Request

Edit the fields, make sure the input works and values stored/displayed corectly

Documentation Changes Required

Add new fields info to list of fields: https://docs.joomla.org/Standard_form_field_types

[dgrammatiko]

Nice one. Not necessarily something for this PR but would be good to have support for these native inputs:

• datetime-local: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/input/datetime-local
• month: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/input/month
• week: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/input/week

Oh date time is deprecated: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/input/datetime#browser_compatibility

[Fedik]

Oh date time is deprecated

yes

datetime-local

This is DateTime here

Unfortunately month and week have bad support by Browsers, probably for another time 😉
Or maybe I make another PR for them, will see.

[brianteeman]

Could you update the description please to be datetime not datetimelocal

[brianteeman]

What happens with non gregorian calendars?

[Fedik]

What happens with non gregorian calendars?

It only gregorian. It is standart date and datetime-local input, works as described in HTML specs.
No more no less 😉

[Fedik]

Could you update the description please to be datetime not datetimelocal

Wich description do you mean?
It actualy displaing datetime-local, because datetime is deprecated (see @dgrammatiko coment)

[brianteeman]

[Fedik]

@brianteeman that is correct.
Xml <field type="datetime"/> (wich is DatetimeField class in PHP), will render <input type="datetime-local">

[brianteeman]

nice and confusing

[laoneo]

I would also deprecate our calendar field in favor of this one.

[Fedik]

I would also deprecate our calendar field in favor of this one.

it not replacement, because it does not support non gregorian calendars

[laoneo]

How do we handle gregorian calendars then?

[Fedik]

How do we handle gregorian calendars then?

I assume you mean "non gregorian".
There a helper JS depend from language, one for jalali https://github.com/joomla/joomla-cms/blob/4.1-dev/build/media_source/system/js/fields/calendar-locales/date/jalali/date-helper.es5.js

[joomla-bot]

This pull requests has been automatically converted to the PSR-12 coding standard.

[HLeithner]

I'm in favor for this PR, we can add a comment to the field that the browser support vor non-gregorian doesn't exists (yet) and the developer must decide if he/she needs it or not.

[brianteeman]

As long as this is a custom field and core doesnt change to use this field eg for publishing then I 100% agree as stated before.

[HLeithner]

This pull request has been automatically rebased to 5.1-dev.