DateTimePicker widget is a wrapper of Bootstrap DatePicker for Yii 2 framework.
The preferred way to install this extension is through composer.
Either run
php composer.phar require --prefer-dist maddoger/yii2-datetimepicker "*"
or add
"maddoger/yii2-datetimepicker": "*"
to the require section of your composer.json file.
Once the extension is installed, simply use it in your code by:
use maddoger\widgets\DateTimePicker;
echo $form->field($model, 'field')->widget(DateTimePicker::className());For datetime format and timezone conversation you can use DateTimeBehavior.
In model behaviors for timestamp field:
[
'class' => DateTimeBehavior::className(),
'attributes' => ['published_at'],
'originalFormat' => 'U', //original format
'originalTimeZone' => 'UTC', //original timezone
'timeZone' => 'Europe/London', //local timezone
'format' => 'datetime', //local format, Formatter format
]Now you can use published_at as original attribute and published_at_local as user read-write attribute.
For date fields:
[
'class' => DateTimeBehavior::className(),
'attributes' => ['birth_date'],
'originalFormat' => 'Y-m-d',
'format' => 'date',
'timeZone' => 'UTC',
]