In my understanding a validator validates input.
It should and will never change input to be displayed in another format.
Greetings
Thomas Weidner, I18N Team Leader, Zend Framework
http://www.thomasweidner.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Murphy" <mmu...@cinci.rr.com>
To: <fw-general@lists.zend.com>
Sent: Friday, January 15, 2010 7:57 PM
Subject: [fw-general] Zend Date
I am a total newbie here. Trying to learn ZF. Have doe the Quickstart
tutorial, and also created a simple application using the concepts
learned from that. I am now trying to tweak it. One thing I need to
know is how to use Zend_Date. I have a date in the database that I am
displaying on a Zend_Form using a text field. Here is the definition of
the field on my form:
// Add Drive Date
$this->addElement('text', 'driveDate', array(
'label' => 'Date',
'required' => true,
'filters' => array('StringTrim'),
'validators' => array(
array(
'validator' => 'Date',
'options' => array('date_format' => 'n/j/Y')
)
)
));
The date shows on the form in YYYY-MM-DD format, but I would like to see
it in MM/DD/YYYY format. It also expects any dates entered to be in
YYYY-MM-DD format despite the validator listed above. I am guessing
that using Zend_Date is what I want to do, but when I create a Zend_Date
object from the field upon retrieving it from the database, the format
includes a time (12:00am) which I don't want. So what am I missing?
How can I get the Date validator to function properly? How can I
display the date without the time, and how do I get a modified date back
into the database?
