HTML::FormFu::Inflator::CompoundDateTime(3p)

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

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.