Need Javascript Date Format (other than current date)

[xstatic]

After searching through the hundreds of links about "Javascript Date Formatting", all I am finding is how to format dates that gives a "current date" result.

Here is what I need...
I have a couple date fields that I have users input various dates like "Date of Birth" and "Access From Date" and "Access To Date". There are multiple users and they invariably input the dates in different formats (i.e., 9/07/06, 09-07-07, 9/7/2007, etc.) The fields are a single field and I want to force the format to be M/D/YY. I want the months and days to have no leading zeros and slashes instead of dashes.

Can someone please show me a javascript (or even php) that will either change the users input to the correct format automatically or somehow force them to input the correct format?

Thanks in advance!!!

[pbmods]

Heya, Xstatic. Welcome to TSDN!

When creating a new JavaScript Date object, you can specify a date/time as the parameter to the constructor, or you can use Date::parse().

The formats that it accepts are similar to PHP's strtotime() function.

[xstatic]

Heya, Xstatic. Welcome to TSDN!

When creating a new JavaScript Date object, you can specify a date/time as the parameter to the constructor, or you can use Date::parse().

The formats that it accepts are similar to PHP's strtotime() function.

Thanks for the reply pbmods,
In reading the description of the Date:parse object, I don't know if this is will work. Maybe I am just not understanding its use.

The fields that my users are inputting are various dates, and can never be pre-determined in a hard-code situation. I need a script to take the user's input and reformat it to the proper format of M/D/YY. So if they enter 09-07-07, the script will change it to 9/7/07.

Hope this clarifies and if anyone can give me an example script, that would be great!

[pbmods]

Heya, Xstatic.

Use Date's constructor to create a new Date object, then use its accessors to structure the date how you want it:

var $textbox = document.getElementById('theTextbox');
 
var $dateTrans = new Date($textbox.value);  // If this doesn't work try:
// var $dateTrans = new Date(Date.parse($textbox.value));
 
$textbox.value = $dateTrans.getMonth() + '/' + $dateTrans.getDay() + '/' + $dateTrans.getYear();
 

[rnd me]

to coerce input:



this function worked on 2/3 examples you posted.

function parseDate(s) {
    var d = new Date();
var td=s.replace(/[-_\\\.]/gm, "/")  
  d.setTime(Date.parse(td))
  return d; 
}
 
 
parseDate("9/7/2007")
 

it returns a date object however, not a string.
i didn't have a proto that is formatted like you want, but you can use my custom formatter to do it:

Date.prototype.format=function(form){   //edited for posting
  function f(n) {        return n < 10 ? "0" + n : n;    }
  var d = form;
    d = d.replace("MM", f(this.getMonth() + 1));
    d = d.replace("M", this.getMonth() + 1);
    d = d.replace("DD", f(this.getDate()));
    d = d.replace("D", this.getDate());
    d = d.replace("YYYY", this.getFullYear());
    d = d.replace("YY", f(this.getYear() - 100));
      return d;
}
 

"I want to force the format to be M/D/YY. "

alert(parseDate("9/7/2007").format("M\/D\/YY"))