Yii: CActiveForm JUI – JQuery UI Inputs (CJuiDatePicker)

I found it pretty difficult to find a reference for how to integrate a jQuery UI date picker in with my CActiveForm view and model.

This is what I found to work correctly for datepicker, for the model field “dob_date”.

<div>
<?php echo $form->labelEx($model, 'dob_date'); ?>
<?php
$this->widget('zii.widgets.jui.CJuiDatePicker', array(
   'name' => CHtml::activeName($model, 'dob_date'),
   'value' => $model->attributes['dob_date'],
));
?>
<?php echo $form->error($model, 'dob_date'); ?>
</div>

You might need to wrap a function around $model->attributes['dob_date'] to output it as dd/mm/YYYY from a timestamp if that’s the type of field the model attribute represents