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Sending a form on a specific date & time

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  • 17-01-2015 2:43am
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    EIREHotspur
    Registered Users Posts: 763 ✭✭✭


    Anyone got an example of how to send a form on a datepicker date & time?

    Have tried all sorts of google search terms and cannot nail this one.

    thanks


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    stevenmu
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 9,689 Mod ✭✭✭✭stevenmu


    Generally a form is something that a user interacts directly with, so it isn't usually something that you would schedule.

    The normal way to achieve what you want to do, or what I think you want to do at least, is to store the results of your form, including the data picker, in some intermediate location. Normally this would be a database but could be a file location as well.

    Then, you want some kind of timer job or scheduled task to periodically check your database of file location for any data/transactions which are due to be sent. Depending on your needs this could happen every second, every few minutes, daily, once a week etc.

    So the two things you will need to figure out are, how to save data from a form, and how to create a timer job or scheduled task. There's a lot of ways to do each depending on what technologies you are using and are familiar with.


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    Talisman
    Registered Users Posts: 6,035 ✭✭✭Talisman


    You need to submit the selected date & time in ISO 8601 format so you can be sure that the time cannot be misinterpreted on the server side.

    JavaScript has a Date.toISOString() method which returns the correctly formatted date string. Old browsers (IE8 and earlier) will require the ECMAScript 5 compatibility shim in order to work.


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