A working YUI Calendar With Spry Data

Question

Hi,
I've seen a number of posts about linking Spry data with the YUI calendar widget.
Well I've done that here.  http://www.pwhitehurst.f2s.com/yui%20calendar.html. through a little perserverance and reading the Yahoo calendar API
The calendar dates are highlighted based on the event dates in the SPRY data.  I haven't added any other functionality yet as  I'm just taking it one step at a time.  But this page should give others the base code for getting started.  The key is to declare a YAHOO namespace so you can reference the calendar in your spry region postload notifications or other spry functions etc.
Any questions please reply and I'll see if I've worked it out.  I'm away over Easter but intend to add functionaility so that when you click a date on the calendar it filters the spry data via a non destructive filter etc. I also want the calendar to move to the right month as I click events.
Cheers
Phil

Answer 1

Thanks,
Unfortunatley my page hasn't gone live yet, so I can't show you what I mean, but I think I've found the problem.
I've managed to config the YUI calendar to accept dates in DD/MM/YYYY format (using some of the localisation features described on the Yahoo developers pages: http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/examples/calendar/germany.html) so now my calendar will accept and properly shade any date passed to it in DD/MM/YYYY format (which is what my spry dataset is in) and it will also return any date selected from the calendar in DD/MM/YYYY format, as it should. So, all good on the calendar front...
...but spry is still operating in standard MM/DD/YYYY mode, so if I set my "start_date" and "end_date" columns as type = "date" (which I want to do for sorting purposes) it doesn't recognise any date after the 12th day of the month! (because it still thinks the DD segment is a MM segment and so has a maximum poss value of 12! doh!). So far I've got around this by defining both date columns as "strings", so the combining function you describe above (much appreciated btw :-)) passes the date string to the calendar exactly as entered, and because my calendar is set up to recognise this date string, theres no problem, and i can shade any date in the calendar (including the 13th to the 31st!)
so the only problem i have now is being able to sort my dates. one solution seems to be to have 2 columns - one with the date in DD/MM/YYYY format which is used for display (as it is now) and another in american MM/DD/YYYY format which is used to sort, but this seems to me a bit of a waste of time, and theres always the possibility that one column will have an error in it, especially since I'm not used to working in the american format.
sorry, a bit of a ramble there. I suppose my question is this: is there a simple step i'm missing where I can tell spry that my date columns are in a specific format? ie. dd/mm, not mm/dd?
something like:
var ds1 = new.Spry.Data.HTMLDataSet("myData.html", "table1", {sortOnLoad: "start_date", sortOrderOnLoad: "ascending"});
ds1.setColumnType("start_date", "date", {format:dd/mm/yyyy});
if not, there really should be!
*any admins reading, mental note for the next release please...! :-)*
I suppose i could give in and convert all my dates to the american system which would solve all the problems, but i never like being bullied by the Yanks!