date formatting

[Peggy Schatz | screen-card.design]

hello,

in my template I have an input field which contains the date a shelf
expires.

<input type="text" name="{$shelf_expire.name}"
value="{$shelf_expire_value}" class="bg{$shelf_expire.farbe}"
size="{$shelf_expire.breite}" {$shelf_expire.readstatus} />

Given the value for $shelf_expire_value is 2099-12-31 the template
returns just that.


If I use:
value="{$shelf_expire_value|date_format:'%d.%m.%Y'}" instead of
value="{$shelf_expire_value}" I get the result: 04.10.2007, which is
today's date...

Is date_format only working with a certain type (format) of string? How
can I get the desired output of: 31.12.2099?

Thanks in advance,
Peggy

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[Vincent DEBOUT-2]

hello,

> hello,
>
> in my template I have an input field which contains the date a shelf
> expires.
>
> Given the value for $shelf_expire_value is 2099-12-31 the template
> returns just that.
>
> If I use:
> value="{$shelf_expire_value|date_format:'%d.%m.%Y'}" instead of
> value="{$shelf_expire_value}" I get the result: 04.10.2007, which is
> today's date...
>
> Is date_format only working with a certain type (format) of string? How
> can I get the desired output of: 31.12.2099?

The documentation says: "Dates can be passed to Smarty as unix timestamps,
mysql timestamps or any string made up of month day year, parsable by
php's strtotime()."
The strtotime function accepts only english dates. 31.12.2099 is not an
english date!!
Take a look here : <http://fr3.php.net/manual/en/function.strtotime.php>

Regards,
Vincent

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[messju mohr]

On Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 03:06:24PM +0200, Vincent DEBOUT wrote:

> hello,
>
> > hello,
> >
> > in my template I have an input field which contains the date a shelf
> > expires.
> >
> > Given the value for $shelf_expire_value is 2099-12-31 the template
> > returns just that.
> >
> > If I use:
> > value="{$shelf_expire_value|date_format:'%d.%m.%Y'}" instead of
> > value="{$shelf_expire_value}" I get the result: 04.10.2007, which is
> > today's date...
> >
> > Is date_format only working with a certain type (format) of string? How
> > can I get the desired output of: 31.12.2099?
>
> The documentation says: "Dates can be passed to Smarty as unix timestamps,
> mysql timestamps or any string made up of month day year, parsable by
> php's strtotime()."
> The strtotime function accepts only english dates. 31.12.2099 is not an
> english date!!
> Take a look here : <http://fr3.php.net/manual/en/function.strtotime.php>

No, Peggy does not pass DD.MM.YYYY, she passes YYYY-MM-DD, which is
fine for strtotime() and wants DD.MM.YYYY as output. The problem is,
that the range strftime() (and strtotime()) can handle is limited by
the underlying operating system. My system for example will only
handle dates correctly up to january 2038.
 
> Regards,
> Vincent

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[Peggy Schatz | screen-card.design]

Thanks to you both!

I just figured out the problem when reading the doc provided:

(docs) Note:  The valid range of a timestamp is typically from Fri, 13
Dec 1901 20:45:54 GMT to Tue, 19 Jan 2038 03:14:07 GMT. (These are the
dates that correspond to the minimum and maximum values for a 32-bit
signed integer.)

Hmmm... I gues I have to do some stringformatting instead.

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[Peggy Schatz | screen-card.design]

Thanks to both of you!

I just figured out the problem (as messju statet) when reading in the
docs provided:

Note:  The valid range of a timestamp is typically from Fri, 13 Dec 1901
20:45:54 GMT to Tue, 19 Jan 2038 03:14:07 GMT. (These are the dates that
correspond to the minimum and maximum values for a 32-bit signed integer.)

Hmmm... I guess, I have to do some string formatting instead.

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[Ken Snyder]

Peggy Schatz wrote:

> Thanks to both of you!
>
> I just figured out the problem (as messju statet) when reading in the
> docs provided:
>
> Note:  The valid range of a timestamp is typically from Fri, 13 Dec
> 1901 20:45:54 GMT to Tue, 19 Jan 2038 03:14:07 GMT. (These are the
> dates that correspond to the minimum and maximum values for a 32-bit
> signed integer.)
>
> Hmmm... I guess, I have to do some string formatting instead.
>

Another option is to override the built-in date_format function with
your own plugin that has more robust date handling such as PEAR::Date.  
To override built-in plugins, you can add an entry to the beginning of
the plugins_dir array:

$tpl = new Smarty();
array_unshift($tpl->plugins_dir, '/my/plugins/dir/');

- Ken Snyder

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[Peggy Schatz | screen-card.design]

Yes, I used a simple plugin of my own:


function smarty_modifier_mydate_format($date_in,$lang)
{
if($date_in != "") {
        $temp = explode("-",$date_in);
        if($lang == "german") {
                $date_out = $temp[2]. "." . $temp[1] . "." .$temp[0];
                }
        else {
                $date_out = $temp[1]. "/" . $temp[2] . "/" .$temp[0];
                }
        return $date_out;
        }
}

I'll take a look at PEAR::Date too, since PEAR is implemented anyway.
Thanks!

Ciao,
Peggy


> Another option is to override the built-in date_format function with
> your own plugin that has more robust date handling such as PEAR::Date.  
> To override built-in plugins, you can add an entry to the beginning of
> the plugins_dir array:
>
> $tpl = new Smarty();
> array_unshift($tpl->plugins_dir, '/my/plugins/dir/');
>
> - Ken Snyder

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