Re: [fw-core] Zend Form and Input Filtering

Matthew wrote an excellent blog entry on this exact topic, you should check it out.

http://weierophinney.net/matthew/archives/217-Creating-composite-elements.html

-Hector

On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 12:49 AM, David Muir <david@davidkmuir.com> wrote:

What's the best way to handle a time or date field?

At the moment, for dates I've added a pregReplace filter to the form element to swap from dd/mm/yyyy to yyyy-mm-dd.

Then in the view scrip, I have a second filter added to swap from yyyy-mm-dd to dd/mm/yyyy.

It works, but I'm not really happy with the code. I just noticed the NormalizedToLocalized and LocalizedToNormalized filters, which I'm assuming is what I should be using.

Is the cleanest way to deal with this be to create date and time elements together with their own custom decorators that apply the NormalizedToLocalized filter on output? I would have thought that this is such a common use-case that there would already have been something set up for this?

Cheers,
David