Question

I am wanting to set this jquery date picker to throw an alert / dialog if the date selected is todays date. I am using smarty, thats the date function you see. However when I input todays date, the script will still not return the dialog that represents today. Here is the script:

$("#sanctionDateStart").datepicker({
    altField: "#sanctionDateStart_hidden", 
    altFormat: "yy-mm-dd", 
    minDate: new Date()
}).datepicker("setDate", "{$data.sanctionDateStart}").change(function () {
    $('#sanctionDateEnd').datepicker('option', 'minDate',
    $(this).datepicker('getDate'));
    if ($(this).datepicker('getDate') == '{date("m/d/Y", $smarty.now)}'){
        alert ('Todays Date');  
    }
    else {
        alert ('Not Todays Date');
    }
});

Answer 1

Use Datepicker onSelect instead of .change

 $('selector').datepicker( {
    onSelect: function(date) {
        //Do your thing here
        //date hold selected date
    }
 });