How to use django-jalali calendar in tempates?

Question

Im new to Django and im trying to use django in a Persian app, therefore I need users pick i a date(jalali date) and send it to server. I've used django-jalali in admin area and its working fine, but I need to use this in front-end too. I've set locale to Asia/Tehran and Time Zone to fa but default date picker shows up Gregorian calendar. please help me with that. How can I solve this?

Answer 1

there is a package called django-jalali-date which provide you good tools to work with jalali dates. Here is an example of how you can add jalali_date input with datepicker from it's doc

from django import forms
from jalali_date.fields import JalaliDateField, SplitJalaliDateTimeField
from jalali_date.widgets import AdminJalaliDateWidget, 
AdminSplitJalaliDateTime


class TestForm(forms.ModelForm):
    class Meta:
        model = TestModel
        fields = ('name', 'date', 'date_time')

    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
        super(TestForm, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
        self.fields['date'] = JalaliDateField(label=_('date'), # date format is  "yyyy-mm-dd"
            widget=AdminJalaliDateWidget # optional, to use default datepicker
        )

        # you can added a "class" to this field for use your datepicker!
        # self.fields['date'].widget.attrs.update({'class': 'jalali_date-date'})

        self.fields['date_time'] = SplitJalaliDateTimeField(label=_('date time'), 
            widget=AdminSplitJalaliDateTime # required, for decompress DatetimeField to JalaliDateField and JalaliTimeField
        )