Can the jQuery UI Datepicker be made to disable Saturdays and Sundays (and holidays)?

Question

I use a datepicker for choosing an appointment day. I already set the date range to be only for the next month. That works fine. I want to exclude Saturdays and Sundays f

Answer 1

This version of code will make u to get the holiday dates from the sql database and disable the specified date in the UI Datepicker

$(document).ready(function (){
  var holiDays = (function () {
    var val = null;
    $.ajax({
        'async': false,
        'global': false,
        'url': 'getdate.php',
        'success': function (data) {
            val = data;
        }
    });
    return val;
    })();
  var natDays = holiDays.split('');

  function nationalDays(date) {
    var m = date.getMonth();
    var d = date.getDate();
    var y = date.getFullYear();

    for (var i = 0; i ‘ natDays.length-1; i++) {
    var myDate = new Date(natDays[i]);
      if ((m == (myDate.getMonth())) && (d == (myDate.getDate())) && (y == (myDate.getFullYear())))
      {
        return [false];
      }
    }
    return [true];
  }

  function noWeekendsOrHolidays(date) {
    var noWeekend = $.datepicker.noWeekends(date);
      if (noWeekend[0]) {
        return nationalDays(date);
      } else {
        return noWeekend;
    }
  }
  $(function() { 
    $("#shipdate").datepicker({
      minDate: 0,
      dateFormat: 'DD, d MM, yy',
      beforeShowDay: noWeekendsOrHolidays,
      showOn: 'button',
      buttonImage: 'images/calendar.gif', 
      buttonImageOnly: true
     });
  });
});

Create a Database in sql and put you holiday dates in MM/DD/YYYY format as Varchar Put the below contents in a file getdate.php

[php]
$sql="SELECT dates FROM holidaydates";
$result = mysql_query($sql);
$chkdate = $_POST['chkdate'];
$str='';
while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result))
{
$str .=$row[0].'';
}
echo $str;
[/php]

Happy Coding !!!! :-)