Jquery UI datepicker. Disable array of Dates

I have been trying to search for a solution to my Jquery ui datepicker problem and I'm having no luck. Here's what I'm trying to do...

I have an application where i'm doing some complex PHP to return a JSON array of dates that I want BLOCKED out of the Jquery UI Datepicker. I am returning this array:

["2013-03-14","2013-03-15","2013-03-16"]

Is there not a simple way to simply say: block these dates from the datepicker?

I've read the UI documentation and I see nothing that helps me. Anyone have any ideas?

Solution 1:

You can use beforeShowDay to do this

The following example disables dates 14 March 2013 thru 16 March 2013

var array = ["2013-03-14","2013-03-15","2013-03-16"]

$('input').datepicker({
    beforeShowDay: function(date){
        var string = jQuery.datepicker.formatDate('yy-mm-dd', date);
        return [ array.indexOf(string) == -1 ]
    }
});

Demo: Fiddle

Solution 2:

IE 8 doesn't have indexOf function, so I used jQuery inArray instead.

$('input').datepicker({
    beforeShowDay: function(date){
        var string = jQuery.datepicker.formatDate('yy-mm-dd', date);
        return [$.inArray(string, array) == -1];
    }
});

Solution 3:

If you also want to block Sundays (or other days) as well as the array of dates, I use this code:

jQuery(function($){

    var disabledDays = [
       "27-4-2016", "25-12-2016", "26-12-2016",
       "4-4-2017", "5-4-2017", "6-4-2017", "6-4-2016", "7-4-2017", "8-4-2017", "9-4-2017"
    ];

   //replace these with the id's of your datepickers
   $("#id-of-first-datepicker,#id-of-second-datepicker").datepicker({
      beforeShowDay: function(date){
         var day = date.getDay();
         var string = jQuery.datepicker.formatDate('d-m-yy', date);
         var isDisabled = ($.inArray(string, disabledDays) != -1);

         //day != 0 disables all Sundays
         return [day != 0 && !isDisabled];
      }
   });
});