On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 03:37:13PM +0000, Oliver Charles wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This has hit me a few times, and I've just encountered it again, so I
> thought it would be good to ask those wiser than I :)
>
> There have been a few times where I could do with querying the
> database (which I'd normally do through $c->model), but this is not
> available. For example, I've added the option for users to specify how
> to display dates on our website, through a variety of formats. I
> thought the best way to do this, would be using a Template Toolkit
> plugin:
>
> [% USE user_date %]
> The date is [% user_date.format(some_date) %].
>
> However, this plugin needs to access the user preferences model
> ($c->model('UserPreference')->date_format($user)).
Don't know about your plugin, but shouldn't you be able to get $c from
the template stash? $stash = $context->stash. Then use
$stash->get().
But, I'm with Ash on this -- I only allow users to specify a timezone
(and language/locale).
So I set:
$c->stash->{user_time} = $current_user
? sub { return shift->clone->set_time_zone(
$current_user->timezone->name || 'UTC' ) }
: sub { return shift };
And then use:
[% user_time(item.start_time).strftime( '%x %X' ) %]
I leave the format in the template as it seems like a display issue
that template authors might want more control over w/o having to
update the application.
On another project I set up TT vmethods that defined a number of
formats and then in the template I would do:
[% item.start_time.full_date %]
or
[% item.start_time.time_with_zone %]
But, I'm not sold on that approach.
--
Bill Moseley
[email protected]
Sent from my iMutt
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