On Thu, Jun 06, 2002 at 05:08:56PM -0400, Sam Tregar wrote:
> > Suppose you have a model object for a concert which includes a date. On
> > one page, the designers want to dipslay the date in a verbose way with
> > the month spelled out, but on another they want it abbreviated and fixed
> > length so that dates line up nicely. Would you put that formatting in
> > the controller?
> In the script:
>
> $template->param(long_date => $long_date,
> short_date => $short_date);
> In the template:
>
> The long date: <tmpl_var long_date> <br>
> The short date: <tmpl_var short_date>
Can I vote for "yick" on this?
A designer should never have to come to a programmer just to change the
formatting of a date.
I'm a huge fan of passing Date::Simple objects, which can then take a
strftime format string:
[% date.format("%d %b %y") %]
[% date.format("%Y-%m-%d") %]
Tony
