3.0 Date field invalid date and black-holed in forms

[rafrsr]

I have a list and form, in both case I render the value of date field as is, I expect the date field only render the date, but I got the date and time, the hour is not saved in DB because the field is type date.

echo $entity->date

Expected: 05/26/2014
Result: 05/26/2014 5:13 PM

In the form I'm using a text input for the date, in order to use jquery datepicker instead of three inputs. Using cake default inputs the inputs are ok without time.

Another related problem , if I use the cake default inputs, for day, month and year then the submit is black-holed

[markstory]

This happens because CakePHP maps all date, datetime, and timestamp columns to native PHP Datetime objects which always have a time component. It might be possible to have the ORM use a different object, or indicate to the created object that it should not format the time segments.

Another related problem , if I use the cake default inputs, for day, month and year then the submit is black-holed.

I'll look into this as that should not be happening.

[lorenzo]

I don't think it would be crazy to have a Date object to represent date columns. The object would inherit from Time and would override the display functions to avoid this problem. I consider this just an annoyance and not a real problem, so it will be down in my priority list. If anyone wats to take stab on it, please do :)