A Date picker

You can use jQuery UI Datepicker http://jqueryui.com/datepicker/

Include this in your head

<link rel="stylesheet" href="//code.jquery.com/ui/1.11.2/themes/smoothness/jquery-ui.css">

in your footer

  <script src="//code.jquery.com/jquery-1.10.2.js"></script>
  <script src="//code.jquery.com/ui/1.11.2/jquery-ui.js"></script>
  <script>
  $(function() {
    $( "#datepicker" ).datepicker();
  });
  </script>

and your input

{{ Form::text('date', '', array('id' => 'datepicker') }}

You can also change the format like "31 Feb, 2015" or any other you want, check this http://jqueryui.com/datepicker/#date-formats

 <script type="text/javascript">
  $(function() {
          $( "#datepicker" ).datepicker( "option", "dateFormat", 'd MM, y');
  });
  </script>

@Rachid Oh...thank you very much ...it works...however i have one inconvenient....since i will be using the datepicker for entering the date of birth...the user will have to click many so that to get the right date of birth....do you have any suggestion which can remove this inconvenience....again thanks for your precious help....

This will make it easy to select the date of birth. http://jqueryui.com/datepicker/#dropdown-month-year

<script type="text/javascript">
  $(function() {
    $( "#datepicker" ).datepicker({
      changeMonth: true,
      changeYear: true
    });
  });
  </script>

http://laravel.com/docs/4.2/validation#rule-date

No 31 Feb 2015 allowed :)

You must always validate your data and not rely on js components to do it.

@pmall...thank you very much...point noted...

When I tried RachidLaasri's solution, I got an error saying "unexpected ';' " a few line lines after where I insert

{{ Form::text('date', '', array('id' => 'datepicker') }}

But in fact I don't have any ';' in that view file.

I am using Laravel 5. What I am missing here? Could this be a dependency issue or something else?

Thanks in advance.

@zhiyong if you are using L5 use should use the new output tags in blade:

    {!! Form::text('date', '', array('id' => 'datepicker') !!}

@uxweb Thanks for the reply.

This is actually what I did. I basically put the stuff RachidLaasri provided into header and footer of app.blade.php. Then in a test page (View), I used following code:

@extends('app')
@section('content')
{!! Form::open(array('url' => $type, 'class' => 'form')) !!}
{!! Form::text('date', '', array('id' => 'datepicker') !!}
{!! Form::close() !!}
This is an test page
@endsection

I got an error: syntax error, unexpected ';'

This view looks good, does the error stack provides the file and error line?

Hi @rakeshsonea, here put some Datepickers for Bootstrap:

Bootstrap Datepicker: https://github.com/eternicode/bootstrap-datepicker

Bootstrap Datetimepicker: http://eonasdan.github.io/bootstrap-datetimepicker/

Hope those help you.

@zhiyong You are missing a ) in your code

{!! Form::text('date', '', array('id' => 'datepicker')) !!}

@RachidLaasri
Yes, that is the problem. Thanks very much. I should have caught it.

I think a 'a' is also missing from your code. Adding it may help newbies like me in the future. :)

@codeatbusiness Thanks for the link. I will look into them.

if we are using text form for entering dates ... the input form can be initially filled with text input right? .. how to avoid this?

What does datepicker accepts as a value in a database should it be a varchar or date ?