/* 'Magic' date parsing, by Simon Willison (6th October 2003) http://simon.incutio.com/archive/2003/10/06/betterDateInput Adapted for 6newslawrence.com, 28th January 2004 */ /* Finds the index of the first occurence of item in the array, or -1 if not found */ Array.prototype.indexOf = function(item) { for (var i = 0; i < this.length; i++) { if (this[i] == item) { return i; } } return -1; }; /* Returns an array of items judged 'true' by the passed in test function */ Array.prototype.filter = function(test) { var matches = []; for (var i = 0; i < this.length; i++) { if (test(this[i])) { matches[matches.length] = this[i]; } } return matches; }; var monthNames = gettext("January February March April May June July August September October November December").split(" "); var weekdayNames = gettext("Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday").split(" "); /* Takes a string, returns the index of the month matching that string, throws an error if 0 or more than 1 matches */ function parseMonth(month) { var matches = monthNames.filter(function(item) { return new RegExp("^" + month, "i").test(item); }); if (matches.length == 0) { throw new Error("Invalid month string"); } if (matches.length > 1) { throw new Error("Ambiguous month"); } return monthNames.indexOf(matches[0]); } /* Same as parseMonth but for days of the week */ function parseWeekday(weekday) { var matches = weekdayNames.filter(function(item) { return new RegExp("^" + weekday, "i").test(item); }); if (matches.length == 0) { throw new Error("Invalid day string"); } if (matches.length > 1) { throw new Error("Ambiguous weekday"); } return weekdayNames.indexOf(matches[0]); } /* Array of objects, each has 're', a regular expression and 'handler', a function for creating a date from something that matches the regular expression. Handlers may throw errors if string is unparseable. */ var dateParsePatterns = [ // Today { re: /^tod/i, handler: function() { return new Date(); } }, // Tomorrow { re: /^tom/i, handler: function() { var d = new Date(); d.setDate(d.getDate() + 1); return d; } }, // Yesterday { re: /^yes/i, handler: function() { var d = new Date(); d.setDate(d.getDate() - 1); return d; } }, // 4th { re: /^(\d{1,2})(st|nd|rd|th)?$/i, handler: function(bits) { var d = new Date(); d.setDate(parseInt(bits[1], 10)); return d; } }, // 4th Jan { re: /^(\d{1,2})(?:st|nd|rd|th)? (\w+)$/i, handler: function(bits) { var d = new Date(); d.setDate(parseInt(bits[1], 10)); d.setMonth(parseMonth(bits[2])); return d; } }, // 4th Jan 2003 { re: /^(\d{1,2})(?:st|nd|rd|th)? (\w+),? (\d{4})$/i, handler: function(bits) { var d = new Date(); d.setDate(parseInt(bits[1], 10)); d.setMonth(parseMonth(bits[2])); d.setYear(bits[3]); return d; } }, // Jan 4th { re: /^(\w+) (\d{1,2})(?:st|nd|rd|th)?$/i, handler: function(bits) { var d = new Date(); d.setDate(parseInt(bits[2], 10)); d.setMonth(parseMonth(bits[1])); return d; } }, // Jan 4th 2003 { re: /^(\w+) (\d{1,2})(?:st|nd|rd|th)?,? (\d{4})$/i, handler: function(bits) { var d = new Date(); d.setDate(parseInt(bits[2], 10)); d.setMonth(parseMonth(bits[1])); d.setYear(bits[3]); return d; } }, // next Tuesday - this is suspect due to weird meaning of "next" { re: /^next (\w+)$/i, handler: function(bits) { var d = new Date(); var day = d.getDay(); var newDay = parseWeekday(bits[1]); var addDays = newDay - day; if (newDay <= day) { addDays += 7; } d.setDate(d.getDate() + addDays); return d; } }, // last Tuesday { re: /^last (\w+)$/i, handler: function(bits) { throw new Error("Not yet implemented"); } }, // mm/dd/yyyy (American style) { re: /(\d{1,2})\/(\d{1,2})\/(\d{4})/, handler: function(bits) { var d = new Date(); d.setYear(bits[3]); d.setDate(parseInt(bits[2], 10)); d.setMonth(parseInt(bits[1], 10) - 1); // Because months indexed from 0 return d; } }, // yyyy-mm-dd (ISO style) { re: /(\d{4})-(\d{1,2})-(\d{1,2})/, handler: function(bits) { var d = new Date(); d.setYear(parseInt(bits[1])); d.setDate(parseInt(bits[3], 10)); d.setMonth(parseInt(bits[2], 10) - 1); return d; } }, ]; function parseDateString(s) { for (var i = 0; i < dateParsePatterns.length; i++) { var re = dateParsePatterns[i].re; var handler = dateParsePatterns[i].handler; var bits = re.exec(s); if (bits) { return handler(bits); } } throw new Error("Invalid date string"); } function fmt00(x) { // fmt00: Tags leading zero onto numbers 0 - 9. // Particularly useful for displaying results from Date methods. // if (Math.abs(parseInt(x)) < 10){ x = "0"+ Math.abs(x); } return x; } function parseDateStringISO(s) { try { var d = parseDateString(s); return d.getFullYear() + '-' + (fmt00(d.getMonth() + 1)) + '-' + fmt00(d.getDate()) } catch (e) { return s; } } function magicDate(input) { var messagespan = input.id + 'Msg'; try { var d = parseDateString(input.value); input.value = d.getFullYear() + '-' + (fmt00(d.getMonth() + 1)) + '-' + fmt00(d.getDate()); input.className = ''; // Human readable date if (document.getElementById(messagespan)) { document.getElementById(messagespan).firstChild.nodeValue = d.toDateString(); document.getElementById(messagespan).className = 'normal'; } } catch (e) { input.className = 'error'; var message = e.message; // Fix for IE6 bug if (message.indexOf('is null or not an object') > -1) { message = 'Invalid date string'; } if (document.getElementById(messagespan)) { document.getElementById(messagespan).firstChild.nodeValue = message; document.getElementById(messagespan).className = 'error'; } } }