I am trying to retrieve dates from database in a recordset and print dates in mm/dd/yy mm:ss format in the view. Is it possible to intercept data in the model while retrieval and do formatting there instead of looping over recordset in the controller and reformatting dates in the controller before sending it to the view.
Is there a way in handlebars to format dates in the view without writing a helper function ?
Please help.
Thank you.
To format all my data, I created a service "utils" and pass it formatting libraries like moment.js. Your question asked if the handlebars could do this, and I don't know, but this method gives you the freedom to utilize any library. Reference http://sailsjs.org/#/documentation/concepts/Services
this "utilService" has a few libraries that help with formatting.
// utilService.js - in api/services
var changeCase = require("change-case"),
moment = require("moment"),
numeral = require("numeral");
module.exports = {
numeral : numeral,
moment : moment,
changeCase : changeCase
}
then I can use it in my view pages as utilService.moment(DATE).format('YYYY-MM-DD')
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I'm currently working on a project in which I create fixtures with Alice-bundle to run tests to make sure my API-endpoints work properly. Everything works fine, except for the DateTime properties.
No matter what string I pass it, eg: <dateTime('2019-09-23 14:00:00')>, it always gives me the wrong date and time, usually something like: 1998-10-25T14:29:45+01:00.
Even using <dateTime('now')> does not work -- it gives me some pre-2000s date & time as well, while that's exactly what some examples I'd found do use.
A fixture could look something like this:
Path\To\Task\Entity:
my_task:
title: 'My tasks'
description: 'These are all the tasks just for me!!!'
startsAt: <dateTime('now')>
endsAt: <dateTime('now')>
createdBy: '#some_higher_user'
Ideally I just want to pass it a string so I can define both a Date and Time and make sure it works properly, in the right format.
And help would be appreciated.
Looking here https://github.com/nelmio/alice/blob/master/doc/advanced-guide.md#functions we read:
function can be a Faker or a PHP native (or registered in the global scope) function.
So I would recommend trying a PHP native function that creates a \DateTime object
<date_create_from_format ( 'Y-m-d H:i:s' , '2019-09-23 14:00:00')>
// or
<date_create('now')>
That's how it works. The <dateTime()> function takes an argument called $max. So what it does is create a date between a starting date (not sure which one, probably something in the 1900 range or so) and that $max argument.
I guess you will want to use <dateTimeBetween()> which takes a startDate and an endDate to create a fake date between them. So I suppose if startDate = endDate, then you'll get the desired fixed date.
Take a look at fzaninotto/Faker library documentation. It's the library used by AliceBundle to actually fake data. There you can see what DateTime related functions you can use.
I want to apply #formatNumber binding expression on one of my widgets binding, which is:
#datasource.item.quantity * #datasource.item.price
I have tried to apply some usage like:
(#datasource.item.quantity * #datasource.item.price)#formatNumber
[#datasource.item.quantity * #datasource.item.price]#formatNumber
Is there any way to do it?
The travel approval template from Google should give you what you need. As you can see in the template, it uses a client script in the binding expression to format dates on the dashboard into ISO format.
The only way i have found to store date in a Datetime field in a notes form is this:
theDoc2.replaceItemValue("lastAccess",session.createDateTime("Today"));
But this only creates a Date, not DateTime. Also, i dont want to create a static time like "Today 12" but i want the current datetime dynamicly.
Using this i get an error (Exception occurred calling method NotesDocument.replaceItemValue(string, Date) null):
theDoc2.replaceItemValue("lastAccess",#Now());
and using this, the form field changes from Date/Time to Text data type and i want to keep Date/Time type:
theDoc2.replaceItemValue("lastAccess",#Now().toLocaleString);
Any ideas?
Just gave it a try:
as you wrote, .replaceItemValue("fieldName", #Now()) throws an error.
However, I got it to work with
.replaceItemValue("fieldName", session.createDateTime(#Now()))
In that case the value is stored in the Notes field as Time/Date with all necessary components as in
17.01.2014 12:45:51 CET
From what I can see, difference between the two is that #Now() returns a Date data type, whereas session.createDateTime() returns a NotesDateTime object
On the other hand, for me it's also working with your original method:
session.createDateTime("Today")
Don't know what's causing the prob on your side; do you have an editable represantion of the field on you xpage? If so, does it have some kind of converter enabled which could do some filtering during submit?
i will answer my own question as i found a way. Please comment if you think it is not correct or best practice...
theDoc2.replaceItemValue("lastAccess",session.createDateTime("Today"+#Now().toLocaleTimeString()));
A little late, but I had the same problem, but this method resolved it:
DateTime datumtijd = session.createDateTime("Today");
datumtijd.setNow(); //!!!!!!
System.out.println((datumtijd).toString());
Hope it helps :)
I’m using Kentico v7. I’m using the Smart Search Results widget and I’m using the built-in transformation to render the HTML (Document Types -> Root -> SmartSearchResults (ASCX type). I noticed that transformation is using the “Created” date, but we would like to see the “Last Modified Date”. I’ve looked into how to obtain the last modified date rather than the created date, and I see that it is quite involved.
I’ve evaluated the CMSModules\SmartSearch\Controls\SearchResults.ascx.cs control and have seen that it calls into a SearchHelper class and into a method of Search(). I was able to evaluate this method and see that the logic is quite complex in retrieving the data.
What approach can I do to change the date to “Last Modified” instead of the “Created” date?
(I realize this is a very specific Kentico question)
You should be able to do this by adding the following into a transformation
<%# GetSearchValue("DocumentModifiedWhen") %>
This can also be used to get other values of the searched document.
I want to create a dynamic php date format. Example: show the time of the node if it was published today and only the day/month when older then today. I want this format to be available throughout Drupal like the other predefined date formats in Drupal (not just on theme level).
I found the (D7 only) hook for hook_date_format_types but even that one doesn't seem to allow for a callback where I could define this PHP logic.
Does anyone know which hook would make this possible? Or a module which does this?
In Drupal6, format_date() has the dates and times hardcoded. Also, format_date() does not allow callbacks, but it does allow a custom string. That is where you can apply a trick: instead of hardcoding the string in there, you call a function that returns a string.
function mydate_format($timestamp) {
$now = time();
if (($now - $timestamp) < (60*60*24)) {
return "H:i";
}
else {
return "d:m:Y";
}
}
print format_date($timestamp, 'custom', mydate_format($timestamp));
The second option is to re-define a date-timestamp, but that is both hackish and limited. Date-formats are defined with variable_get(), but don't pass the timestamp along; so your example of switching formats based on the value of timestamp is not possible this way.
In settings.php:
$conf['date_format_long'] = $conf['debug'] ? 'r' : 'l, F j, Y - H:i';
This will switch from one value to another, based on whether your settings.php has a flag "debug" set to TRUE or not. As mentioned: the use for this is limited, since you cannot get any context.
The third alternative is to use Date API which offers onlinle configurable time-formats. But that is both clumsy and insecure (inputting executable PHP in your database). It also depends on a very large module-set. And has the same downside as the first solution: you cannot use format_date, but must use a modified function call, instead of format_date(). See all the options at The Drupal.org date themeing handbook.
GOTCHA In all cases Drupal will not call this function for cached content. If you want to have the dates really dynamic you either need to avoid caching alltogether, or implement the date-formatting in clientside javascript.
TL;DR: You cannot have dynamic date-formats without changing some of the code on theme-level. Using a callback-function to generate the "custom" dateformat is the simplest, working solution.
You can use Date API module to add your custom date formatting. Date API module is inside the Date module. After enabling the Date API module you can go the path "admin/settings/date-time/formats/add" to add your custom format.
"admin/settings/date-time/formats/configure" is the path to configure date formats.
Have a look at these. Happy coding.
Thanks
RT
You can go to node.tpl.php(possibly in sites/all/themes/theme_name/node.tpl.php). Here yo can find $created variable, to reformat date you can use your custom function and change the $created as you want.After this all nodes will use your formatted dates.
Regatds,
Chintan.
Use the features module. Create a feature.
In the resulting feature module, on the [feature].module file, create a hook_nodeapi function and format the field with a conditional statement that takes into account the current date() for how the date will be displayed and feed it into the $node->content var.
And that is the way rockstars would do it (-;