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You know that handy little javascript calendar that EE uses in the control panel to let you pick dates?  Ever want to use one on the front end- in the standalone edit form- for example?  Of course you have- or at least, I’ve seen enough requests on the forums to know that some folks want it.  I always said ‘It’s really not all that hard to do with php’- cause it’s really not. 

Since Thursday was a slow day, when I got yet another request for the calendar in the SAEF, I figured I’d go ahead and whip up a quick plugin instead of trying to walk folks through the php.  Thus I present to you, the SAEF Calendar plugin.  Actually, you could use it anywhere you need to insert a date in proper EE date format.  But mostly?  That’s going to be the SAEF.

The DynoCat plugin is a dynamic version of the {exp:weblog:categories} tag with a few added tweaks.  The plugin treats a hierachy (a parent category and all categories beneath it) as a ‘block’ for display purposes.  This allows you to only show the categories that are in the same heirarchy as the category of the page you are currently on.

Added tweaks include the ability to show only a single heirarchy, all parent categories plus the heirarchy the current category belongs to, and the ability to show a count of entries in each category.
Is now working with category names in the urls on 1.6+ thanks to John of 5pieces.com.