date field pre filled in search mask

Hi,

It wolud be great, if there will be an option, that a date field in all the search masks can be populated with the actual date or some other possibilities, not only with concrete date values.
That would help, if a date field is a criteria, that only items should be found with the date bigger or equal than the actual date for example.

Because I needed that feature, I made a small "hack":
I entered a fixed old date out of the past and use this as default value( 2016-10-06 for example).
Than I changed the code in components/com_flexicontent/classes/flexicontent.fields.php:
...
// CASE: range values: value01---value02
if (strpos($filter_value, '---') !== false) {
$filter_value = explode('---', $filter_value);
$filter_value[2] = $filter_value[1];
$filter_value[1] = $filter_value[0];
if ($filter_value[1]=="2016-10-06"){$filter_value[1]=date("Y-m-d");}
unset($filter_value[0]);
}
...
It works (certainly not, if a user searches exactly for that date ), but as it is a hack, I have to do it again after each update of FC.
Is ist possible to integrate this in the code?
I think it should be only a smal change...

Hope to hear from you.

Best regards
Matthias

hello you can create a fork of flexicontent and after propose your modification via a PR
github.com/FLEXIcontent/flexicontent-cck
we will check this with pleasure

Oh!
I have never done that before...
Could you do that for me...?
I think, it's only a very small change...

no i can't need to do more with this code
because 2016-10-06 can be used ... (not generic code)

you mean I should change the code in a way, that you can include it with no further changes?
I thought you would like to do that yourself to have the full control about the code and the quality and style of programming...

Hello

i really see the usefulness of a specific parameter
but you can do it now yourself

2 general parameter exists for this already
- initial filter values
- locaked filter values

in your case you need the initial filter values
see the picture