I’m building a booking system that works like this:
1.) The property owner sets a minimum contract length, e.g. 3 months and ‘availability date’
2.) The renter can then book the property for 3+ months, so when they fill in the booking form, they select both move-in date + move-out date. The move-in date must be FROM the availability date set by the property owner, and the move out date must be 3+ months away (or whatever the minimum contract length is) AND on the same day as the move-in date (e.g, if the user moves in on 3rd March, they must ‘move out’ on the 3rd of whatever month their move-out date is).
Can I use the date picker for this? Can I get it working as described above?
Yes, you can take a date and apply a maths operation on it and then check another date to see if it is before or after that date. This would tell you if it is valid.
If you take a look at this demo, you can see the 2 date pickers. Imagine these were the Owner and the Renter dates. you can see if the datediff is + or - result to check the validity.
OK thanks - looks like I can build it then. Will probably rope in a little help when I put it together.
Just to re-iterate functionality (I couldn’t quite tell how the demo would relate, other than the date pickers)
Owner selects the move-in date from a date pickers. They also select the minimum contract length from a dropdown (1 month, 2 months, 3 months, 6 months, 12 months).
The renter will then only be able to select a move-in date after the move-in date selected by the owner, and will not be able to choose a move-out date earlier than the minimum contract length.
