Sending a form on a specific date & time

EIREHotspur

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

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.

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.