Datepicker with ranges and flexible recurring selections

Question

I can't seem to find what I'm looking for and I'm hoping someone else will know of a solution. I could always build it myself but I feel like it should have been done before.

Platform

Web (client side). I'm looking for a jquery widget or something equivalent. Must be open source. This is for a commercial web app licensed under GPL so anything compatible with that works (MIT, for example).

Context

The app is for booking/reserving things. I'd be more specific but it's designed to be fairly general purpose.

Requirements

• Allows a date range selection from a visual calendar (like jquery datepicker)
• Allows for recurring date definition.
• Recurring date definition should allow the user to do the following type "date selections":
  • 25 of august - every year
  • Every monday from 02/05/2014 - 02/09/2014
  • First monday of every month from x to y
  • Monday to Wednesday every week from x to y
  • etc
  • or as close to this as I can get to this
• How it achieves this is flexible, though I need it as user friendly as possible.

Bonus Req

• Allows time selection/repetition as well (I can add this myself though)

Answer 1

Check the recurring_dates javascript library written by Rachot Moragraan. It is open source. See the demo here.

You can generate recurring date on every possible constraint.
For example:

• Every 2 weeks on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday starting today for 5 occurrences
• Every month on the last Sunday starting on 02/10/09 until 03/30/10

This library will generate a list of dates for those patterns.
It can also be a boiler plate code if you want to build or extend new functionalities.

With little CSS tweaks, you can make it look a bit friendly.

Answer 2

While looking at and researching Sri's recommendation, I also came across the jQuery recurrenceinput widget.

It looks like http://jquer.in/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/recurrence-input.jpg

Thought I'd add it incase anyone is looking for an alternative.