Working with dates in Joomla!

So this is NING… nice. I thought I should contribute to this group somehow and so decided to write a blog entry about handling date and time values in Joomla!. This is the first proper blog entry I have ever written! I know I know - it’s shameful for a Joomla! author and developer to have never written a blog, so it’s about time I jumped on the band wagon – who knows maybe I’ll sign up to Twitter next!

If you bought my latest Joomla! book (Joomla! 1.5 Development Cookbook), or you are intending to do so, you may have noticed that handling of dates and use of JDate did not make it into the book. This article also aims to plug that hole.

Please feel free to leave any comments :)

Overview

In this article we explain how best to handle date and time values in Joomla! extensions. We investigate the following:

How to store values in the Joomla! MySQL database
Ways to format dates
How to deal with time zones

Read the full article on my website

Comment by James Kennard on October 7, 2009 at 12:21pm: Hope you enjoy :)

Comment by Mark W. Bender on October 7, 2009 at 2:25pm: Will have to bookmark it for future reference!

Comment by Oleg Nesterov on October 7, 2009 at 4:41pm: Hi. Pack Pub asked me to write a review on your book. Will see :)

Comment by James Kennard on October 8, 2009 at 4:10am: Where do I send the bribery money for a good review? lol just kidding :p
Would be great to get some feedback on the new book - I haven't seen any reviews/ratings for it as yet!

Comment by Martin Rasser on October 8, 2009 at 7:52am: If it's anything like 'Mastering Joomla 1.5' I wouldn't worry about it! I must say that book really put me in charge of the framework. Cheers, and keep up the good work!

Working with dates in Joomla!

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