A flexible way to format timestamps?

troxy · #1 (**permalink**) 12-12-2007, 05:57 PM

Hello,
I'm rolling through a returned rowset, which stores dates as unix timestamps.
What's the most flexible way to output a timestamp as a formatted string, using Zend_Date?

Right now I'm doing it like this, for each row:

PHP Code:


			
<?php $date = new Zend_Date($row->posted, Zend_Date::TIMESTAMP); echo $date->toString('EEEE, dd MMMM yyyy');?>

It works allright, but the code doesn't that good...

What I'm looking for is something like this:

PHP Code:


			
class IndexController extends Zend_Controller_Action {
    $date = new Zend_Date();
    $date->setInputFormat(Zend_Date::TIMESTAMP);
    $date->setOutputFormat('EEEE, dd MMMM yyyy');
    $this->view->date = $date;
}

And then to output a timestamp formatted as "EEEE, dd MMMM yyyy" you would do:

PHP Code:


			
<?php foreach($rowset as $row):?>
    <p><?php echo $this->date->format($row->posted)?><br /></p>
<?php endforeach;?>

Does Zend_Date support something similiar?
Or do I need a ViewHelper for this?

Thank you.

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