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MikeGA
MikeGA

Reputation: 1262

How can I correctly print a date in a twig template?

Some of my tables contain date fields and some values are set to: '0000-00-00', when I try to print the date in a twig template like this:

{{ entity.date | date('m/d/Y') }}

I get the following exception:

An exception has been thrown during the rendering of a template ("DateTime::__construct(): Failed
to parse time string (-001-11-30T00:00:00-06:00) at position 7 (-): 
Double timezone specification") in MGAdminBundle:Customers/Partials:_estimates.html.twig at line 12.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2851

Answers (1)

CodeIsLife
CodeIsLife

Reputation: 1245

The date filter accepts strings (it must be in a format supported by the strtotime function), DateTime instances, enter link description here

You can create a twig extension 

<?php 


use Symfony\Component\HttpKernel\KernelInterface;
use Symfony\Bundle\TwigBundle\Loader\FilesystemLoader;
use CG\Core\ClassUtils;


class PostExtension extends \Twig_Extension{

    protected $loader;
    protected $controller;

    public function __construct(FilesystemLoader $loader)
    {
        $this->loader = $loader;
    }

    public function setController($controller)
    {
        $this->controller = $controller;
    }

    /**
     * {@inheritdoc}
     */
    public function getFunctions()
    {
        return array(
            'dateFormater' => new \Twig_Function_Method($this, 'dateFormater', array('is_safe' => array('html'))),
        );
    }

    public function dateFormater($dateTime){

        $now = new \DateTime('NOW');
        return $now->format( 'd-m-Y' ); // any other format !!               
    }

    /**
     * Returns the name of the extension.
     *
     * @return string The extension name
     */
    public function getName()
    {
        return 'some_extension';
    }


}

now add it as a service ! 

 <services>
        <service id="twig.extension.postExtension" class="Project\PostBundle\Twig\Extension\PostExtension" public="false">
            <tag name="twig.extension" />
            <argument type="service" id="twig.loader" />
        </service>

        <service id="project.post.listener" class="Project\PostBundle\EventListener\ControllerListener">
            <tag name="kernel.event_listener" event="kernel.controller" method="onKernelController" />
            <argument type="service" id="twig.extension.postExtension" />
        </service>
    </services>

so finally you can use it as a filter in your twig code

{{ dateFormater(entity.date) }}

enjoy !

Upvotes: 1

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