Question

I have a timestamp field (using the timestampable template) that I want formatted differently in the results for only one SELECT query. Is there a way to pass in a date/time format string in the Doctrine_Query::create() method? Or maybe there’s a way with ->setParams() or ->setOptions?

I could format the date in the View using Zend_Date, but there’s something in the back of my mind that doesn’t like that idea.

Answer 1

Not sure about the formating in the query, but I’d like to answer this part of your question :

I could format the date in the View
using Zend_Date, but there’s something
in the back of my mind that doesn’t
like that idea.

Formating an output is precisely the job of the View, I think — and absolutly not the role of the database engine, nor the Model layer.

Moreover, what if you want your application to be internationalized / localized ? Date formats are not the same for every countries / languages ; and that different formating doesn’t have its place on the database layer either, I think : it’s purely a matter of output — a matter if View.