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timeSelect()


View Helpers Form Object Functions string controller


Builds and returns a string containing three select form controls for hour, minute, and second based on the supplied objectName and property.

Name Type Required Default Description
objectName any No The variable name of the object to build the form control for.
property string No The name of the property to use in the form control.
association string No The name of the association that the property is located on. Used for building nested forms that work with nested properties. If you are building a form with deep nesting, simply pass in a list to the nested object, and CFWheels will figure it out.
position string No The position used when referencing a hasMany relationship in the association argument. Used for building nested forms that work with nested properties. If you are building a form with deep nestings, simply pass in a list of positions, and CFWheels will figure it out.
order string No hour,minute,second Use to change the order of or exclude time select tags.
separator string No : Use to change the character that is displayed between the time select tags.
minuteStep numeric No 1 Pass in 10 to only show minute 10, 20, 30, etc.
secondStep numeric No 1 Pass in 10 to only show seconds 10, 20, 30, etc.
includeBlank any No false Whether to include a blank option in the select form control. Pass true to include a blank line or a string that should represent what display text should appear for the empty value (for example, "- Select One -").
label string No false The label text to use in the form control.
labelPlacement string No around Whether to place the label before, after, or wrapped around the form control. Label text placement can be controlled using aroundLeft or aroundRight.
prepend string No String to prepend to the form control. Useful to wrap the form control with HTML tags.
append string No String to append to the form control. Useful to wrap the form control with HTML tags.
prependToLabel string No String to prepend to the form control's label. Useful to wrap the form control with HTML tags.
appendToLabel string No String to append to the form control's label. Useful to wrap the form control with HTML tags.
errorElement string No span HTML tag to wrap the form control with when the object contains errors.
errorClass string No field-with-errors The class name of the HTML tag that wraps the form control when there are errors.
combine boolean No Set to false to not combine the select parts into a single DateTime object.
twelveHour boolean No false whether to display the hours in 24 or 12 hour format. 12 hour format has AM/PM drop downs
encode any No true Use this argument to decide whether the output of the function should be encoded in order to prevent Cross Site Scripting (XSS) attacks. Set it to true to encode all relevant output for the specific HTML element in question (e.g. tag content, attribute values, and URLs). For HTML elements that have both tag content and attribute values you can set this argument to attributes to only encode attribute values and not tag content.
<!---View code --->
#timeSelect(objectName="business", property="openUntil")#

<!---Show fields for hour and minute --->
#timeSelect(objectName="business", property="openUntil", order="hour,minute")#

<!---Only show 15-minute intervals --->
#timeSelect(objectName="appointment", property="dateTimeStart", minuteStep=15)#

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