From: Marcus Ramberg <marcus@nordaaker.com>
Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2005 12:21:13 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: added datetime inflation to the cookbook.
X-Git-Tag: 5.7099_04~1786
X-Git-Url: http://git.shadowcat.co.uk/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?p=catagits%2FCatalyst-Runtime.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=dd16873caa911e99f13e9e509ba242fdf19ead67

added datetime inflation to the cookbook.
changed regexp tests to use 'like'
---

diff --git a/lib/Catalyst/Manual/Cookbook.pod b/lib/Catalyst/Manual/Cookbook.pod
index 9f8b0eb..7902a60 100644
--- a/lib/Catalyst/Manual/Cookbook.pod
+++ b/lib/Catalyst/Manual/Cookbook.pod
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ Just use Catalyst::Model::CDBI::CRUD as baseclass.
 Modify the $c->form() parameters to match your needs, and don't forget to copy
 the templates. ;)
 
-==head2 Serving static files and CSS as text/css
+=head2 Serving static files and CSS as text/css
 
 If you want to serve static content (like images, txt or CSS) via Catalyst,
 then all you need is the plugin Catalyst::Plugin::Static as well as a small
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ regex to set the MIME type for CSS to text/css.
         },
     );
 
-==head2 Uploads with Catalyst
+=head2 Uploads with Catalyst
 
 To implement uploads in Catalyst you need to have a HTML form similiar to
 this:
@@ -135,6 +135,25 @@ module:
 
     $CGI::Simple::POST_MAX = 1048576000;
 
+
+=head2 Easily working with datetime objects.
+
+If you store datetime data in your tables, you can easily expand this column to
+a L<Time::Piece> object which lets you call useful methods like ymd, mon and 
+datetime on it.
+
+In order to set it up, add something like the following to your CDBI Model Class:
+
+     __PACKAGE__->has_a(
+         mycolumn => 'Time::Piece',
+         inflate => sub { Time::Piece->strptime( shift, "%FT%H:%M:%S" ) },
+         deflate => 'datetime'
+     );
+
+If you want to use another format in the database, you can change the strptime call 
+to fit your format, and use strftime to return it with your custom format to the 
+database during deflate. See the L<Time::Piece> and L<Class::DBI> docs for more info.
+
 =head1 AUTHOR
 
 Sebastian Riedel, C<sri@oook.de>
diff --git a/t/12default.t b/t/12default.t
index 18d9884..d7cc040 100644
--- a/t/12default.t
+++ b/t/12default.t
@@ -23,5 +23,5 @@ package main;
 use Test::More tests => 2;
 use Catalyst::Test 'TestApp';
 
-ok( get('/foo')         =~ /bar/ );
-ok( get('/foo_bar/foo') =~ /yada/ );
+like( get('/foo')         , qr/bar/ );
+like( get('/foo_bar/foo') , qr/yada/ );