CDateTimeParser for long month names

Yii 1.1 General Discussion
1

I see that CDateTimeParser has option for:

MMM | Short textual representation of month, three letters

But no option to enter long month name

How can we make it accept long month names?

2

Surprisingly, the parser doesn’t seem to support that, judging by the source code. I’d recommend putting in a feature request, but for now you could try PHP’s built in strtotime() function:

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.strtotime.php

If you need more control over the format, PHP has a multitude of date related functions that you can use:

http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.datetime.php

3

Cheers Keith. If anyone is interested the code for this is as follows:


public function longMonthFormat($attribute, $params)

{

	if($this->$attribute != date('d F Y', strtotime($this->$attribute)))

	{

		$this->addError($attribute, 'The format of '. $this->getAttributeLabel($attribute).' is invalid.');

	}

}

Also looks like the option is going to be added in the next release: https://github.com/yiisoft/yii/issues/1282