The Date Dropdown fieldtype is a simple fieldtype. It adds 3 dropdown menu`s with the day, month and year to select a value from. It also add some basic template tags for selecting and search entries based on their date.
Make sure your system meets the minimum requirements:
As for the template tag inside a {exp:channel:entries} loop it is not very advanced. There is only one param and thats the default format="" param.
Below are the Tag Parameters. Those parameters can be used in the tag described above
Just the default formatting. http://ellislab.com/expressionengine/user-guide/templates/date_variable_formatting.html
{date_dropdown_field format="%F %d %Y"}With the search method you can search entries based on their value.
{exp:date_dropdown:search}Below are the Tag Parameters. Those parameters can be used in the tag described above
The year to search for
year="1977"The month to search for
month="1977"The day to search for
day="1977"Set the order based on the following values: day month year time
orderby="year"Set the sort in asc or desc order
sort="desc"This is the same as the start_on param in the {exp:channel:entries} tag. http://ellislab.com/expressionengine/user-guide/add-ons/channel/channel_entries.html#start-on
start_on="{current_time format='%d'}"Set the limit of returning entries.
limit="9999"if the result is lower then the limit it is also do a check on the next month to get the total limit you set with the limit="" param
check_next_month="yes"Filter entries only on the given status.
status="Open"
`Below are the Tag Variables. Those Variables can be used in the tag described above
As result the search method will give all entry ids back.
{entry_ids}