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

You could write a Helper that takes in $this->data['Mymodel']['mydatefiled'] as a parameter, assumes that year/month/day are in the array, and parse accordingly:

Or something like that. I think the DateTime object was added in...PHP 5.2? CakePHP 1.x is targeted at PHP 4 compatibility, so I don't think there's any "CakePHP way" to do it, at least not for 1.x.