VERSION

version 2.03

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.