Template::Plugin::DateTime::Format(3pm) 		User Contributed Perl Documentation		   Template::Plugin::DateTime::Format(3pm)

NAME

       Template::Plugin::DateTime::Format - format DateTime objects from inside TT with "DateTime::Format"-style formatters

VERSION

       version 0.02

SYNOPSIS

	  [% USE f = DateTime::Format('DateTime::Format::Strptime', { pattern => "%T" }) %]
	  [% f.format(datetime_object) %]

DESCRIPTION

       Oftentimes, you have a DateTime object that you want to render in your template.  However, the default rendering (2008-01-01T01:23:45) is
       pretty ugly.  Formatting the DateTime with a DateTime::Format object is the usual solution, but there's usually not a nice place to put the
       formatting code.

       This plugin solves that problem.  You can create a formatter object from within TT and then use that object to format DateTime objects.

   CREATING AN OBJECT
       Creating a formatter instance is done in the usual TT way:

	 [% USE varname = DateTime::Format( ... args ... ) %]

       This creates a new formatter and calls it "varname".

       The constructor takes up to three arguments.  The first argument is the name of the formatter class.  It is required, and the named class
       must follow the DateTime::Format API.  An exception will be thrown if the class cannot be loaded.

       The second argument is a reference to pass to the formatter's constructor.  If it is an array reference, the array will be dereferenced
       before being passed to "new" as @_.  Otherwise, the single reference is passed to the constructor.

       The third argument is optional and is the rest of @_ to pass to "format_datetime" after the DateTime object.  I don't know if this is
       actually allowed by the API, but I figured it might come in handy.

   FORMATTING DATES
       Once you've created the object, invoke the "format" method with the DateTime object you'd like to format.  The result of "format_datetime"
       is returned.

METHODS

   new
       Called by TT to create a new formatter.

   format($datetime)
       Formats $datetime.

AUTHOR

       Jonathan Rockway "<jrockway@cpan.org>"

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

       Copyright (c) 2008 Jonathan Rockway.

       This module is free software.  You may redistribute it under the same terms as perl itself.

AUTHOR

       Jonathan Rockway <jrockway@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

       This software is copyright (c) 2010 by Jonathan Rockway.

       This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.

perl v5.14.2							    2010-12-27				   Template::Plugin::DateTime::Format(3pm)