[buddypress-trac] [BuddyPress Trac] #5500: Date xprofile field enhancement

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#5500: Date xprofile field enhancement
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 Reporter:  sooskriszta           |       Owner:
     Type:  enhancement           |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal                |   Milestone:  2.6
Component:  Component - XProfile  |     Version:
 Severity:  normal                |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  needs-patch           |
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Comment (by boonebgorges):

 Thanks very much, @abwebstudio. I think the UI is getting close to being
 very good. There are a few things I would change with the wording
 ("Custom" instead of "Arbitrarily"; add a link to date formatting rules,
 like WP has; "Range" instead of "Year Range"; etc) but I really like the
 general workflow here. Very powerful, and quite usable.

 The internals of the patch still need lots of reworking, in accordance
 with some of the comments I made above about coding standards, data
 storage, and so forth. In addition to this, I'd like to consider a few
 more pieces before considering for merge:

 - It would be nice to have unit tests for some of the range stuff. We
 don't need extensive tests for PHP's date format functions, but the range
 stuff is custom, so I think it's worth testing.
 - In Edit mode, Month should only be shown when Month will show in the
 interface, etc.
 - Validation for custom date formats. WP does this using AJAX, in the form
 of a preview - it doesn't tell you when you've entered an "invalid" date
 format, since there's no real "invalid" - unrecognized characters are
 interpreted by `date()` as literals. I think we should copy what WP does
 here.

 @abwebstudio If you're willing to continue working on these items, it'd
 get this ticket done faster. Otherwise I'm interested in shepherding it
 along myself, though it may not happen for this release if it's solely in
 my court.

 Thanks for your continued work! Cool feature!

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