NAME

HTML::FormFu::Inflator::CompoundDateTime - CompoundDateTime inflator

VERSION

version 2.06

SYNOPSIS

---
element:
  - type: Multi
    name: date

    elements:
      - name: day
      - name: month
      - name: year

    inflator:
      - type: CompoundDateTime

# get the submitted value as a DateTime object

my $date = $form->param_value('date');

DESCRIPTION

For use with a HTML::FormFu::Element::Multi group of fields.

Changes the input from several fields into a single DateTime value.

By default, expects the field names to be any of the following:

year

month

day

hour

minute

second

nanosecond

time_zone

METHODS

field_order

Arguments: \@order

If your field names doesn't follow the convention listed above, you must provide an arrayref containing the above names, in the order they correspond with your own fields.

---
element:
  - type: Multi
    name: date

    elements:
      - name: m
      - name: d
      - name: y

    inflator:
      - type: CompoundDateTime
        field_order:
          - month
          - day
          - year

strptime

Arguments: \%args

Arguments: $string

Optional. Define the format that should be used if the DateTime object is stringified.

Accepts a hashref of arguments to be passed to "new" in DateTime::Format::Strptime. Alternatively, accepts a single string argument, suitable for passing to DateTime::Format::Strptime->new( pattern => $string ).

---
inflator:
  - type: CompoundDateTime
    strptime:
      pattern: '%d-%b-%Y'
      locale: de

---
inflator:
  - type: CompoundDateTime
    strptime: '%d-%m-%Y'

AUTHOR

Carl Franks

LICENSE

This library is free software, you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

AUTHOR

Carl Franks <cpan@fireartist.com>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2018 by Carl Franks.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.