[Catalyst] Format last modified date field ...

[J. Shirley]

On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 1:17 PM, Kiffin Gish <kiffin.gish at planet.nl> wrote:
> I'm using a last_modified field which is being displayed like this
> "2009-12-28T18:25:28" (what's that 'T' doing in there?) but want to use
> a different format, how?
>
> In the list.tt2 file for listing users, I have:
>
> [% WHILE (user = users_rs.next) -%]
>  [% FOREACH col IN users_rs.result_source.columns -%]
>    [% user.$col %]</td>
>  [% END %]
> [% END -%]
>
> In the schema Users:
>
> __PACKAGE__->load_components("InflateColumn::DateTime", "TimeStamp",
> "Core");
> __PACKAGE__->table("users");
> __PACKAGE__->add_columns(
>  ...
>  "last_modified",
>  {
>    data_type => "DATETIME",
>    default_value => undef,
>    is_nullable => 1,
>    size => undef,
>  },
> );
>
> Thanks alot in advance.
>
>
> --
> Kiffin Gish <Kiffin.Gish at planet.nl>
> Gouda, The Netherlands
>
>
>


This recipe is a bit premature to release, and I've been meaning to
for a while but I am happy with it and it works well enough for me.  I
had to rip out some other bits, so it may not compile right out.

I posted the gist here: http://gist.github.com/264994

The general idea is that in View::TT configuration, I define whatever
formats I want.  Then in TT, if I have a date I just use the [%
date_whatever | date_long %]

Anything in the "date" group creates a filter called "date_long" or
"date_whatever".

I have used this to create a lot of various template filters that are
sourced by config, though.

Feedback welcome, I'll build a blog entry and cross-post to the wiki
after I clean it up.

-J