Question

I am using jQuery’s Datepicker for a textbox as below. I have restricted the days a user is allowed to select but my question is if there is a way to have a special text appeared in the textbox along with each selected date.

For example, if a user selects day number 1, then there is shown Monday, 19 September 2011 How to make it Monday, 19 September 2011 and a special name for the Monday here?

The same goes for all the available to select days like Tuesday, 20 September 2011 and a special name for the Tuesday here?

Thank you for this

    <script>
$(document).ready(function() {

var date = new Date();
var m = date.getMonth(), d = date.getDate(), y = date.getFullYear();

$('#datepicker').datepicker({
        minDate: new Date(y, m, d),
        dateFormat: 'DD, d MM yy',
        beforeShowDay: function(date){ 
        var day = date.getDay(); 
        return [day == 1 || day == 4 || day == 5,""];
        }
});

$( "#datepicker" ).datepicker( $.datepicker.regional[ "el" ] );

});
    </script>

Answer 1

Add this array:

var weekday=new Array(7);
weekday[0]="Sunny Sunday";
weekday[1]="Manic Monday";
weekday[2]="Terrible Tuesday";
weekday[3]="Wild Wednesday";
weekday[4]="Thorny Thursday";
weekday[5]="Freaky Friday";
weekday[6]="Sadistic Saturday";

Then add this method:

    onSelect: function(dateText, inst) {
        var day = new Date(dateText).getDay();
        $(this).val(dateText + ': ' + weekday[day]);
    },

Demo: http://jsfiddle.net/AlienWebguy/Xm6Dm/