Pikaday by PtPlugins

• Why
• Installation
• Quick Start
• ISO storage, localized display
• Configuration API
• Internationalization
• Requirements
• License

A lightweight Pikaday date picker field for FilamentPHP v3, v4, and v5. No jQuery, no moment.js — just a clean, fast calendar input with full i18n.

Single codebase across all three Filament major versions — same field, same API.

🎯 Try it live · ptplugins.com/demo/pikaday — no signup, just open the calendar.

#Why

Filament's built-in date picker is great, but it pulls in a heavier JS footprint. When all you need is a fast, dependency-light calendar — no jQuery, no moment.js — PikadayDatePicker is a drop-in field that just works, with min/max dates, year bounds, first-day-of-week, and locale-aware month/weekday names out of the box.

The calendar ships with light and dark mode styling that follows Filament's theme automatically — no extra setup.

#Installation

composer require ptplugins/filament-pikaday

The package auto-discovers its service provider and registers its assets. No manual registration needed.

#Quick Start

Use the field anywhere you'd use a Filament form field:

use PtPlugins\FilamentPikaday\Fields\PikadayDatePicker;

PikadayDatePicker::make('published_at')
    ->label('Published at')
    ->minDate('2020-01-01')
    ->maxDate(now())
    ->firstDayOfWeek(1)          // 1 = Monday (default), 0 = Sunday
    ->displayFormat('DD/MM/YYYY');

The stored value is normalized to Y-m-d; the visible input follows displayFormat().

#ISO storage, localized display

This is the key difference from most Filament date fields. The value bound to your model is always an ISO Y-m-d string (2026-06-15) — locale-independent, sortable, and safe to cast to date / compare in SQL. The display is localized purely on the front end via displayFormat() and the calendar i18n.

PikadayDatePicker::make('published_at')
    ->displayFormat('DD/MM/YYYY')   // user sees 15/06/2026
    ->locale('hr');                 // calendar in Croatian
// → model / database always stores "2026-06-15"

Why it matters: many date pickers persist whatever the display format is (15/06/2026 vs 06/15/2026), which then breaks parsing, sorting, and cross-locale data the moment two users have different formats. Here the storage format never changes — only what the user sees does. No ambiguity, no per-locale migration headaches, no d/m vs m/d bugs.

#Configuration API

Prefix / suffix affixes (icons, labels, actions) and a clear button are supported out of the box, just like Filament's native fields.

#Internationalization

Month and weekday names are pulled from Carbon, so every locale Carbon ships works automatically — the picker follows your application locale with English as the default:

PikadayDatePicker::make('starts_on')
    ->locale('hr');   // Croatian month/weekday names

Navigation labels (Previous Month / Next Month) are translatable via the published translations (English + Croatian bundled; other locales fall back to English):

php artisan vendor:publish --tag=filament-pikaday-translations

Need a one-off tweak? Override individual strings without redefining the whole set:

PikadayDatePicker::make('starts_on')
    ->i18n([
        'previousMonth' => 'Prethodni',
        'nextMonth'     => 'Sledeći',
    ]);

#Requirements

• PHP 8.1+
• FilamentPHP 3.x, 4.x, or 5.x (single codebase across all three)

#License

MIT