drupal 7 view filter criteria value input

Question

I have a content type called Event, which has a date field. I created a new view for the content type and added filtering by date as filter criteria. If I enter inside filter configuration I can choose the operator and enter the value inside the input. What I need to do is to split this input into three sepparate inputs for day, month and year. I need to do this inside a custom module. I need to add the value from the admin interface but modify the input via code. Any help would be appreciated.

shrish shrish · Accepted Answer · 2014-05-09T09:10:25

You can do the form alter and change the format,

do this in custom module,

<?php
function mymodule_form_alter(&$form, &$form_state, $form_id){
...
  if($form_id == 'views_exposed_form'){
    if($form['#id'] == 'views-exposed-form-events-all-search-panel-pane-1'){
      $format = 'm-d-Y';
      $form['date_filter']['min']['#date_format'] = $format;
      $form['date_filter']['max']['#date_format'] = $format;
    }
...
}

OR you can try Better exposed filter module.

Project page says:

What's new?

The 7.x release now includes support for the jQuery UI Datepicker instead of a textbox for date-related fields. Since Drupal 7 ships with jQuery UI in core, my hope is to start offering these as options in BEF. If you have any suggestions, please add a feature request to the issue queue.

(Note: Support for fields supplied by the Date module is a little funky until #392836: Exposed Date filter format (in Views) and/or Date format in exposed filter (views) are resolved).

drupal 7 view filter criteria value input

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