[jQuery] jQuery UI: Datepicker: Want to be able to type arbitrary text...

[jQuery] jQuery UI: Datepicker: Want to be able to type arbitrary text...


Hi,
I'm trying to use the UI Datepicker object as a convenience for my
users, but I don't want to force them to use it. When the form is
submitted, I'm processing the date input field through PHP's
strtotime() function so that my users can type in "two weeks ago" as a
date.
Datepicker restricts the characters that you can type into the input
field to just digits and "/" so you can no longer type arbitrary text.
I couldn't find a way to disable this "feature" via the options
object. Am I missing something, or am I going to have to hack the
datefinder code?
Thanks for any help.