Hi,
I made a patch to expose DateTime stuff in the Template language. Please
find it for review here:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ZETACOMP-50
It basically just exposes the procedural interface (where exists) of
DateTime to the template language.
There is one open issue, which needs to be discussed: DateTime
modification functions, such as date_sub() and friends, return the
modified DateTime object in addition. This requires an assignement
whenever these functions are used in a template. For example::
{$foo = date_sub( $date, $interval )}
Otherwise, the Template engine would attempt to convert the returned
object to a string for output.
To avoid this inconvenience, I'd suggest to wrap the DateTime functions
and eat the return value. This means a slide variation from the behavior
known from PHP, but much more convenience for template authors.
What do you think?
Cheers,
Toby
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