On 6. 1. 2014 21:41, Bill Moseley wrote:
On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 7:18 AM, Adam Witney <awit...@sgul.ac.uk
<mailto:awit...@sgul.ac.uk>> wrote:
Hi,
I have a date field in a DBIx::Class Result class using
InflateColumn::DateTime. When I pass this through a Catalyst/TT
application, the date is presented in YYYY-MM-DD format.
I can modify this to DD/MM/YYYY in my TT template with
object.dmy('/'), but I would prefer to change the default DateTime
stringification, however I am not quite sure where or how to do this?
Any ideas greatly appreciated.
Seem like formatting in the template is the right place -- may want to
have different formats in different places in your app. Then you might
also think about how best to localize.
One idea is to localize a set of names for a set of formats:
[% dt_fmt = c.localize( '_DT_DATE_ONLY' );
foo.some_dt_object.strftime( dt_fmt ) | html %]
I have also used a function that does the above, but also clones and
sets the time zone and locale based on the user's preferences:
[% user_time( foo.event_start, '_DT_TIMESTAMP_WITH_ZONE' ) | html %]
Hi Bill,
Thanks for your email. I agree that the template seems like a good place
for this, but to give a little extra detail.
I have a form that is used for both object create and editing. When I
edit an object I have this in my controller:
$c->stash(formdata => $object);
and in the template:
<input name="datefield" type="text" value="[%
formdata.datefield.dmy('/') %]" />
But when creating a new object, if the form validation fails I pass the
form data back to the form like so:
$c->stash( formdata => $c->request->params );
But now the datefield is a text string and formdata.datefield.dmy('/')
prints blank.
I was thinking that if I could define my DateTime stringification to my
required format centrally then I could just use this in the template
<input name="datefield" type="text" value="[% formdata.datefield %]" />
and both scenarios would be happy.
Is the only way to do this to put more code in the template?
Thanks again for your help
Adam
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