How does the formater works?

Yii 2.0 General Discussions
1

Hello,

I am not understanding how to pass the values of the formater inside a widget please.

For example, if I have this widget:




    <?= DetailView::widget([

        'model' => $model,

        'attributes' => [

            'id',

            'title',

            'post:ntext',

            'created_at:datetime',

            'updated_at:datetime',

        ],

    ]) ?>

And would like to pass this into the created_at and updated_at:

<?php Yii::$app->formatter->locale = ‘en-US’;

echo Yii::&#036;app-&gt;formatter-&gt;asDate('2014-01-01'); ?&gt;

How to do it please?

Thank you,

Ben

2

Like this :




    <?= DetailView::widget([

        'model' => $model,

        'attributes' => [

            'id',

            'title',

            'post:ntext',

            [

              'attribute' => 'created_at',

              'value' => function($model, $key, $index, $widget) {

                return Yii::$app->formatter->asDate($model->created_at, 'long');

              }

            ],

            ...

        ],

    ]) ?>

And set your locale in the config (config/web.php) :




...

'formatter' => [

  'class' => 'yii\i18n\Formatter',

  'locale' => 'en-US'

],

...

But it’s not necessary because by default it takes the language if the application (Yii::$app->language)

3

I think your code




'created_at:datetime',

'updated_at:datetime',

is perfectly valid and it is working for me perfectly.

I think you need proper directive in your config file for example - mine is like this:




'formatter' => [

        'defaultTimeZone' => 'Asia/Kolkata',

        'timeZone' => 'Asia/Kolkata',

        'dateFormat' => 'php:d/m/Y',

        'datetimeFormat'=>'php:d-M-Y H:i:s'

        ],
4

Thank you for your help,

I have no idea how you got it to work with the formater as I have added this code in the config/main.php file but still not results, the date is showing in the wrong format:




return [

    'id' => 'app-backend',

    'basePath' => dirname(__DIR__),

    'controllerNamespace' => 'backend\controllers',

    'bootstrap' => ['log'],

    'modules' => [],

    'components' => [

        'user' => [

            'identityClass' => 'common\models\User',

            'enableAutoLogin' => true,

        ],

        'log' => [

            'traceLevel' => YII_DEBUG ? 3 : 0,

            'targets' => [

                [

                    'class' => 'yii\log\FileTarget',

                    'levels' => ['error', 'warning'],

                ],

            ],

        ],

        'formatter' => [

            'defaultTimeZone' => 'Europe/Malta',

            'timeZone' => 'Europe/Malta',

            'dateFormat' => 'php:d/m/Y',

            'datetimeFormat'=>'php:d-M-Y H:i:s',

            'currencyCode' => 'EUR',

            'decimalSeparator' => ',',

        ],


        'errorHandler' => [

            'errorAction' => 'site/error',

        ],


    ],

    'params' => $params,

];

The date is showing in this format:

Mar 7, 2015 12:24:07 AM

But I need it as:

7 Mar, 2015…

I will try the solution of Timmy78 but would have preferred to have your solution working Pawan as it would have set everything in the whole app with only a tiny bit piece of code each time in the array.

Thanks,

Ben

http://pastebin.com/mtVxi9Gt