Migrating would actually be pretty easy -- either remove the behavior 
from the model, or replace the parse_datetime() function. If it sounds 
like a good use-case to you guys, is this the type of thing I should 
share someone, such as on the bakery or from my blog?

John David Anderson (_psychic_) wrote:
> On Jun 4, 2007, at 11:45 AM, Joshua Benner wrote:
>
>   
>> I'm working with CakePHP with an SQL Server backend to great success.
>> One of the hiccups I've encountered, however, is the way that SQL
>> Server outputs datetime values by default -- it's not parsable by
>> PHP's built-in date functions (such as strtotime()) in its default
>> form.
>>
>> I've written a small behavior with an afterFind function that detects
>> and converts SQL Server datetimes to standard datetime strings
>> according to the current locale. It's also easily extensible if I need
>> consistent conversion of other datatypes in the future. It has been
>> working nicely, but I wanted to ask for best practice purposes, and to
>> make sure I'm not using unnecessary code...
>>
>> Is this a valid and effective means to achieve the desired behavior?
>> Does anybody have a better method to suggest?
>>     
>
> Sounds like a pretty good afterFind() use-case to me... that is,  
> unless you want to migrate to MySQL or postgres or something. :)
>
> -- John
>
> >
>   

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