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I've just started my first project using Xataface, and so far I'm very impressed!

I have a quick question about formatting dates. I'm sure this should be possible and easy, but I haven't found the correct way to do it even after some rather extensive searching.

If I use a DATETIME field, dates appear in list view like "2012-01-17 13:04:03". But if I use a TIMESTAMP field, which I need to do, they appear like "20120117130403". I need to have the time display formatting that is applied to DATETIME fields also apply to the TIMESTAMP field.

I tried using date_format in fields.ini with no luck.

Is there a correct way to do this?

Thanks!

It should handle Timestamp the same way it handles datetime. What version are you using? Can you post the relevant portions of the table structure (e.g. the create table statement) so I can take a look. It sounds like it is just treating it like a normal varchar field.

A workaround is always to define your own fieldname__display() method in the delegate class that formats the value exactly the way you want.

shannah wrote:It should handle Timestamp the same way it handles datetime. What version are you using? Can you post the relevant portions of the table structure (e.g. the create table statement) so I can take a look. It sounds like it is just treating it like a normal varchar field.

A workaround is always to define your own fieldname__display() method in the delegate class that formats the value exactly the way you want.

Thanks Steve for your quick reply--fieldname__display() worked wonderfully.

If you'd like to see whether it's a Xataface issue, my version is 1.3rc6 and the create statement is:

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CREATE TABLE `testtable` (
  `id` int(16) NOT NULL auto_increment,
  `created` timestamp NOT NULL default CURRENT_TIMESTAMP,
  PRIMARY KEY  (`id`)
) ENGINE=MyISAM  DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8 AUTO_INCREMENT=1;

I can confirm that every time I try a TIMESTAMP field it displays a string with just numbers. Perhaps the problem is because my version of MySQL is quite dated--5.0.92.

Thanks again--I really enjoy this tool and I'll be around.