Daterange Picker

This is a minimalist-style jQuery/Backbone/Underscore plugin for visual date range selectors.

Heavily inspired by a Stephen Celis' Prototype extension Timeframe.

Installation

First set up required dependencies of jQuery, Backbone and Underscore:

<script src="lib/underscore.js" type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"></script>
<script src="lib/jquery.js" type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"></script>
<script src="lib/backbone.js" type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"></script>

Then grab the daterangepicker.js and daterangepicker.css, add them to your HTML:

<script src="daterangepicker.js" type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"></script>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="daterangepicker.css" type="text/css" media="screen">

Ready to serve.

Usage

Basically, what you need is a hyperlink with two linked inputs start_date and end_date:

  <input type="text" name="date_from" value="2012-11-07" id="date_from"> — 
  <input type="text" name="date_to" value="2012-11-10" id="date_to">
  <a href="#" class="date-picker-handle" data-start-date-input="#date_from" data-end-date-input="#date_to">show datepicker</a>

Of course inputs can be hidden, text is used here for debugging purposes. Values in inputs are used as initial range selection. An empty string means unlimited range. After user selects a range this inputs will be updated with selected date range.

Now instantiate the DaterangePicker:

  $(function() {
    dp = new DaterangePicker('.date-picker-handle');
  })

It accepts only one argument — the selector of the trigger to bind itself to. Inputs selectors are taken from data--attributes of the handle.

See complete sample.html for more details.

Callbacks

The returned object contains the model and view to enable programmable interface for datepicker.

Callbacks can be added by dp.model.on('change:start_date', function(model) {...}).Model has following callbacks:

• change:start_date - called every time start date changed
• change:end_date - called every time end date changed
• after_select — invoked when range (both dates) is selected

Contributing

The best way to contribute is to implement your idea. Feel free to fork and make a pull request.

Changelog

• 0.1.0 — Improved click events handling
• 0.0.3 — Add open ranges (before date / after date) support.
• 0.0.2 — Multiple instances support
• 0.0.1 — Initial usable version

TODO

• Describe options and classes
• Cleanup libs.

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2012 © Vladimir Meremyanin