Using CDateFormatter

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1

Hi, could you please help a newbie with enabling CDateFormatter component in an yii app?

I added this to my protected/config/main.php:




// application components

'components'=>array(

...

    'dateFormatter'=>array(

        'class' => 'CDateFormatter',

        'params' => array('en'),

    ),

...

),

I would like to use currently selected language and not en, but it doesn’t work like this anyway. Yii throws error “Missing argument 1 for CDateFormatter::__construct()…”. So how do I correctly add CLocale instance as the $locale parameter?

Also, should I use dateFormatter in controller or in view, what is the best practice?

2

For the locale corresponding to the application language you can use




Yii::app()->dateFormatter-> ...

/Tommy

3

You don’t have to define it at the config file. (Only your language settings)

4

Thank you for your reply. I would swear that it is just what I tried to do yesterday and it didn’t work. It threw error about accessing parents method or something like that. Hmmm, strange, it works now.