jQuery Time Picker for your Drupal 6 website!
posted 12.15.2011 - 20:12As Drupal experts we get used to Drupal, and it's short-comings. One of the worst UX issues with Drupal is date and time functions when creating content for your website.
How many people want to TYPE dates and times into small anonymous input boxes? Sure, it's not that big a deal when you fill out the fields for creating one or two test nodes on your Drupal site. But what if that was YOUR job? Yeah, why not just shoot me in the head right now!
Huzzah! There is relief with Date Tweaks! Thsi Drupal module intergrates Willington Vega's jQuery timepicker into your Drupal date/time fields, extending the functions of the Date module and using the jQuery Update module.
What the What? Just take a look at this demo to see the time Dropdown with times at Willington Vegas.
- The Date module provides us with the date pop-up for dates only.
- The jQuery Update module gives us a newer version of jQuery to use on our Drupal 6 website.
- The Date Tweaks wraps up the interface with the timepicker and adds it to our Drupal website.
Install the Date Tweaks module on your site, and follow the installation notes. This will also require a visit to Willington's site to get the most recent version of the time picker. (remember those 3rd party code snippets can't be packages on Drupal.org modules).
This hoilday season make your site maintainers happy with UX improvements, and start with dates and times!