January 30, 2012

Datetime formatter behavior

Taking the idea from previous post, I have made a Behavior that formats date and datetime fields.

I took the idea from Rikkin post:https://bakery.cakephp.org/articles/rikkin/2012/01/26/formatos_de_fechas

Give thanks to him, I only put his idea into a behavior.

Here’s the code: (pasted here: https://bin.cakephp.org/saved/72238)

<?php

class DatetimeFormatterBehavior extends ModelBehavior {

    private $__defaultSettings = array(
        'date_format' => '%d/%m/%Y',
        'date_suffix' => '_d',
        'datetime_suffix' => '_dt',
        'datetime_format' => '%d/%m/%Y %H:%i:%s',
        'fields' => true,
    );

    function setup(&$model, $config = array()) {
        $this->settings[$model->alias] = $config + $this->__defaultSettings;
        $this->addDefaultVirtualFields($model);
    }

    function addDefaultVirtualFields($model) {
        extract($this->settings[$model->alias], EXTR_SKIP);
        $colTypes = $model->getColumnTypes();
        foreach($colTypes as $field => $type){
            if($fields === true || in_array($field, $fields)){
                if($type === 'date' || $type === 'datetime'){
                    $model->virtualFields[$field . $date_suffix] = "date_format($model->alias.$field, '" . $date_format . "')";
                    $model->virtualFields[$field . $datetime_suffix] = "date_format($model->alias.$field, '" . $datetime_format . "')";
                }
            }
        }
    }

}

// Usage:
class User extends AppModel {

    var $actsAs = array('DatetimeFormatter');

}

// Test (take a look to output):
debug($this->User->find('first'));
Posted by adael
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