formatting date string in cakephp

Question

I'm new to cakephp, I've got a simple Users controller that corresponds to a users table. I have a created field in the table that I want to ouput on the view action using the niceShort() function. how do I use it in the view?

Current code is:

<p>Member since <?php echo $user['User']['created']?></p>

thanks,

Jonesy

Answer 1

In the controller you can include the build in time helper:

users_controllee.php:

var $helpers = array('Time');

In the view:

<p>Member since <?php echo $time->niceShort($user['User']['created']); ?></p>

Answer 2

Just use built in php function date.

You can use it like this:

echo date('d.m.Y', strtotime($user['User']['created']));

You can use any format you like for date formatting based on build in patterns.

http://php.net/manual/en/function.date.php