test this form for me please

unwashed potato! · 14 Aug 2016 at 23:01

http://www.mayergroup.co.uk/online-quote/cleaning/?service=moving

if you have a spare moment can you take the time to go through this quote form and let me know if you have issues with the date thinking you've input 01/01/1970?

when going through the form can you use the name as TEST OCUK or something like that so i know it's not for a real customer and to not chase you up

ive tested as best i can and never have issues with the date, but every now and again i get a customer say that when they input a date it shows as 01/01/1970 once they try to go to the next step even though they select something in the future.

i'd appreciate if you can try this, and let me know which browser/os you're using.

i know the last person to tell me they had the issue, they said the date pop up didn't come up and they had to input the date by hand, but did use the format i show but still had the issue.

Mynight · 14 Aug 2016 at 23:28

How are you initially setting the date field?

01/01/1970 is phps fallback date if it can't read the UNIX time iirc.

O I tried and had no issues on mobile safari nor Firefox desktop.

unwashed potato! · 14 Aug 2016 at 23:39

"Postcode: T3ST1CL"

this is the variety of code related to the date field.

PHP:

<input type='date' name='date' id='date'  value='<?= $date; ?>' min="<?php echo date("Y-m-d") ?>" />

PHP:

$date = stripslashes(htmlspecialchars($_POST['date'], ENT_QUOTES));

PHP:

<input type='hidden' name='date' id='date' value='<?= $date; ?>' />

PHP:

if (strlen($date)>0 && strtotime($date) < time()) {

$dateShown = strtotime($date);
$dateShown = date('d/m/Y', $dateShown);

$error++;
$errorMessage .= "<label for='date' title='Click to jump to the error'>- Date $dateShown selected is in past. Please correct to dd/mm/yyyy format</label>";
$dateRed = "class='e tooltip' title='Date selected is in past. Please correct to dd/mm/yyyy format' ";
}

annoyingly i'm yet to find a way to replicate the issue, but it certainly is one. I feel it's when the html input date thing can't work on certain browsers but i don't know which.

Mynight · 14 Aug 2016 at 23:40

Let me know if you have trouble finding it on a map

dmsims · 15 Aug 2016 at 10:34

On Chrome desktop it seemed to work but why not use a datepicker ?

Much more convenient

Also removals date is inconsistent (no "template") and

"Which Estate / Letting Agent manages this property? (optional):"

says "(Select One)" but there is no selection

The breadcrumb overlays the title if you resize the browser

unwashed potato! · 24 Aug 2016 at 17:02

ok so i've prevented the check that doesn't let past dates through, now i'm getting loads of past dates.

i've got the user agent info sent in the quote so i can see what the user is using and find how this error is being made.

this is what the user info gave for the latest happening.

User: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_10_2) AppleWebKit/600.3.18 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/8.0.3 Safari/600.3.18

it's muddling the date around. should be 01/09/16 but it comes through as 09/01/16. no idea why. anyone with the same stuff able to try for me?

dmsims · 24 Aug 2016 at 17:03

Locale set to US ?

unwashed potato! · 24 Aug 2016 at 17:20

no idea. how should i check? the dates work fine for all browsers i try it with and those who tried on here. should i be defining that the date is a uk date when splitting it or something? i suspect it's an issue from apple computers.

dmsims · 24 Aug 2016 at 17:32

Give me a mo I'll try it for you

dmsims · 24 Aug 2016 at 17:39

First one sent with Locale set to UK from a Mac date 01/09/16

unwashed potato! · 24 Aug 2016 at 21:12

cheers. date came through as

Preferred Date for Work: 09/01/16 Saturday

so it's not the locale US issue. anyone else with a mac that can check for me? do you have any other browsers you could check with?

dmsims · 24 Aug 2016 at 21:17

OK sent another - same date, Locale set to USA

Please don't turn up at the house

unwashed potato! · 24 Aug 2016 at 21:34

again same issue. keeps showing as 09/01/16. could you try from a phone/tablet?

visibleman · 25 Aug 2016 at 12:35

dmsims said:
...but why not use a datepicker?

No all browsers support the date input type plus there are known issues with the min/max parameters so a dedicated datepicker is the better solution. Plus a lot of them will handle locale date support so you'd just supply Ymd (ideally how dates should be formatted and handled internally) and it'll handle the rest including returning the date in Ymd.

I have however noticed that the min parameter isn't correct and an extra value is being added to the string. It might also be worth closing the PHP line correctly, ie -

Code:

min="<?php echo date('Y-m-d')[B];[/B] ?>"

Although realistically i'd have thought you'd set the minimum value a few days away from the current date for headroom/lead-in/time to reply etc.

And unless you're dealing with DateTime then don't bring time into the equation when comparing dates because in most situations it'll fail.

Also make sure you're sanitising and validating the date POST data before doing any processing on it.

unwashed potato! · 29 Aug 2016 at 23:43

dmsims: would you be able to have another try and see if the issue has been resolved for me?

dmsims · 30 Aug 2016 at 10:30

Yep just going to send it now locale set to UK date 01/09/2016

unwashed potato! · 30 Aug 2016 at 16:45

woo seems to be working now

thanks

unwashed potato! · 4 Sep 2016 at 20:19

ahh ffs it's still messed up. dates are coming through like this now 16/09/13 when it should be 13/09/16.

dmsims · 4 Sep 2016 at 20:37

Date picker /end thread

touch · 5 Sep 2016 at 15:30

dmsims said:
Date picker /end thread

This.

But it's possible to submit the form without entering a date - that could be causing it.