First, I'm a newbie here so just starting to figure this thing out so this could just be me but I have a page with a date field and I can only get the date picker to work if I run V2.0 Beta ... where should I start looking when I generate using the "regular" Joomla Compatibility option?

Thanks!
Dave

After a little digging I see that the code to load jquery isn't generated in the non-beta version so after adding that to my code the date picker worked.

Thanks for sharing your solution and apologies you'd not got a response on this yet!

BTW, I'm not sure if you discovered this using firebug or alike but, when using any widgets like datepicker, validation errors etc, tools like FireBug are invaluable.

Glad you got it sorted!

Gez

Thanks and yes, I did use firebug to figure it out after seeing some comments on it's usefulness

I'm a Chrome user most of the time but now have Firefox set up for debugging so I'll be using it more

And now that I'm starting to get things figured out, it's pretty clear this website is going to make a lot of things so much easier!

BTW, chrome also has useful dev features too. Particularly for minified JS as there is a un-minify button ('{}') that splits minified JS across multiple lines.

Anyway, glad you got it sorted!

Thaks again,

Gez

Hello,

Could you more specific about what to do to have the date picker work?

Cheers

zutiste wrote: Hello,

Could you more specific about what to do to have the date picker work?

Cheers

@dyoungers component wasn't loading jQuery which was the issue. From his post, it seems that he had to include jQuery by adding it manually.

TO DO:

1. Go to your component's admin folder/helpers/helper.php
2. Locate the function public static function headerDeclarations()
3. If you can't see

   $doc->addScript($componentUrlAdmin . '/js/jquery-1.8.2.min.js');
   $doc->addScript($componentUrlAdmin . '/js/jquery-ui-1.9.1.min.js');

   then add them underneath the code:

   //Javascript
   $doc->addScript($siteUrl . '/media/system/js/core.js');
   // Mootools non conflict is handled here :
   $doc->addScriptDeclaration("var Moo = document.id;");
   //jQuery Declarations go Here//

Hope it helps

Gez

OR, replace the links inside the addScript(...) with Google's libraries if you don't have the jQuery & UI scripts downloaded in your component (the folders specified in the addScript).

Gez

audibleid wrote: OR, replace the links inside the addScript(...) with Google's libraries if you don't have the jQuery & UI scripts downloaded in your component (the folders specified in the addScript).

Gez

This was necessary.

It works now, thx.

Great,

Glad it helped!

Gez

yes, that's what I did ... and while your at it, you might need to add the following if you're getting script errors for validation

$doc->addScript($componentUrlAdmin . '/js/jquery.validationEngine.js');

Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be a way to make this fix in the sandbox (unless I'm missing something?)

The problem is that cook 1.5 will soon be gone so things like the addition of jQuery and other features that have appeared during the beta of cook2.0 may work or not.

Apologies for that! All efforts from admin are concentrating on stabilising v2.0 right now...

Best option is to switch to version 2.0 for developing if you can. But, DON'T do that on an existing project if possible. Some wizards conflict when switching as many have already been re-written in 2.0b.

Gez

Wondered about 2.0 and I have a rather large project (at least in my mind) under 1.5 so glad to know the wizards might break if I just try to switch to 2.0

authoring/publishing could be particularly problematic from memory...

It's to do with how they are named + they config (under the hood). Publishing is now an int as opposed to a bool for instance.

Before you commit to making the upgrade of your project, search the forum for variations of 'switch to v2.0' and I'm sure you'll find what you're looking for. Also, in case its helpful to search by author, try my username or jcbenton to narrow your results.

Good luck!

Gez

I replaced with Google libraries:

$doc->addScript('ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.8.3/jquery.min.js');
// Mootools non conflict is handled here :
$doc->addScriptDeclaration("var Moo = document.id;");

$doc->addScript('//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.8.3/jquery.min.js');
// Mootools non conflict is handled here :
$doc->addScriptDeclaration("var Moo = document.id;");


I tried both!
and still does not work the calendar pickup on backend !