NAME

       HTML::FormFu::Inflator::CompoundDateTime - CompoundDateTime inflator

SYNOPSIS

           ---
           element:
             - type: Multi
               name: date

               elements:
                 - name: day
                 - name: month
                 - name: year

               inflator:
                 - type: CompoundDateTime

           # get the submitted value as a DateTime object

           my $date = $form->param_value('date');

DESCRIPTION

       For use with a HTML::FormFu::Element::Multi group of fields.

       Changes the input from several fields into a single DateTime value.

       By default, expects the field names to be any of the following:

       year
       month
       day
       hour
       minute
       second
       nanosecond
       time_zone

METHODS

   field_order
       Arguments: \@order

       If  your  field names doesn't follow the convention listed above, you must provide an arrayref containing
       the above names, in the order they correspond with your own fields.

           ---
           element:
             - type: Multi
               name: date

               elements:
                 - name: m
                 - name: d
                 - name: y

               inflator:
                 - type: CompoundDateTime
                   field_order:
                     - month
                     - day
                     - year

   strptime
       Arguments: \%args

       Arguments: $string

       Optional. Define the format that should be used if the DateTime object is stringified.

       Accepts a hashref of arguments to  be  passed  to  "new"  in  DateTime::Format::Strptime.  Alternatively,
       accepts  a  single  string argument, suitable for passing to "DateTime::Format::Strptime->new( pattern =>
       $string )".

           ---
           inflator:
             - type: CompoundDateTime
               strptime:
                 pattern: '%d-%b-%Y'
                 locale: de

           ---
           inflator:
             - type: CompoundDateTime
               strptime: '%d-%m-%Y'

AUTHOR

       Carl Franks

LICENSE

       This library is free software, you can redistribute it and/or modify it under  the  same  terms  as  Perl
       itself.

perl v5.20.2                                       2014-05-05             HTML::FormFu::I...ompoundDateTime(3pm)