How best to convert CakePHP date picker form data to a PHP DateTime object?

Question

I\'m doing this in app/views/mymodel/add.ctp:

input(\'Mymodel.mydatefield\'); ?>

And then, in

Answer 1

I know this is an old question, but in case anyone else comes looking for an answer: CakePHP's generic Model class has a method, ::deconstruct(), that is used to handle this necessary logic internally. You can use it like this:

$stringDate = $this->MyModel->deconstruct('fieldname', $arrayDate)