HTML::FormFu::Deflator::Strftime - Strftime deflator

       Carl Franks <cpan@fireartist.com>

       This software is copyright (c) 2018 by Carl Franks.

       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 v5.38.2                                       2024-04-10              HTML::FormFu::Deflator::Strftime(3pm)

       Strftime deflator for DateTime objects.

       When you redisplay a form to the user following an invalid submission, any fields with DateTime inflators
       will stringify to something like '1970-01-01T00:00:00'. In most cases it makes more sense to use the same
       format you've asked the user for. This deflator allows you to specify a more suitable and user-friendly
       format.

       This deflator calls DateTime's "strftime" method. Possible values for the format string are documented at
       <http://search.cpan.org/dist/DateTime/lib/DateTime.pm#strftime_Patterns>.

       If you set the form's locale (see "locale" in HTML::FormFu) this is set on the DateTime object. Now you
       can use %x to get the default date or %X for the default time for the object's locale.

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

       HTML::FormFu::Deflator::Strftime - Strftime deflator

           $form->deflator( Strftime => 'start_time' )
               ->strftime( '%d/%m/%Y' );

           ---
           elements:
               - type: Text
                 inflators:
                     - type: DateTime
                       parser:
                           strptime: "%Y/%m/%d"
                 deflator:
                     - type: Strftime
                       strftime: "%Y/%m/%d"

       version 2.07