jQuery DatePicker - defaultDate using $_GET['date']

Question

I'm having troubles with the following code:

<link type="text/css" href="http://jqueryui.com/latest/themes/base/jquery.ui.all.css" rel="stylesheet" />

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://jqueryui.com/latest/jquery-1.4.2.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://jquery-ui.googlecode.com/svn/tags/1.8rc1/jquery-1.4.1.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://jquery-ui.googlecode.com/svn/tags/1.8rc1/ui/jquery-ui.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;
<script type="text/javascript">
  $(document).ready(function(){
      $("#datepicker").datepicker({ gotoCurrent: false,
          onSelect: function(date, inst) { window.location = "diary.php?date="+date; },
          dateFormat: 'dd-mm-yy',
          defaultDate: <?php if(isset($_GET['date'])) { echo $_GET['date']; } else { echo "null"; } ?>
      });
  });
</script>

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For some reason, when I select a date and switch pages - it doesn't go to the defaultDate that is in the $_GET['date'] paramter. Instead it goes off to some random page. The defaultDate description says it will accept strings in the same format set in the code.

Thanks in advance for any help.

Answer 1

I think you are missing quotes around your value.

defaultDate: '<?php if(isset($_GET['date'])) { echo $_GET['date']; } else { echo "null"; } ?>'