PhoenixCalendar

Integrates Phoenix with Calendar.

Implements protocols for displaying Calendar structs such as Date, Time, DateTime, NaiveDateTime with Phoenix HTML. This will solve errors such as: protocol Phoenix.HTML.Safe not implemented for %Calendar.DateTime

Example installation with Calendar, Phoenix and Ecto

Add :phoenix_calendar and :calecto to your deps function is the mix.exs file.

defp deps do
  [
   {:phoenix_calendar, "~> 0.1.2"},
   {:calecto, "~> 0.4.0"},
  ]
end

Then run mix deps.get which will fetch the new packages via the hex package manager.

Also add tzdata to the list of applications in the mix.exs file:

  def application do
    [applications: [:phoenix, :phoenix_html, :cowboy, :logger,
                    :phoenix_ecto, :postgrex, :tzdata]]
  end

Making Calendar easier to use in Phoenix with the use macro

In web/web.ex:

Add use Calendar for aliases so that in your views, controllers and models you can use Time, Date, DateTime, NaiveDateTime, Strftime without prefixing them with Calendar. Instead of Calendar.DateTime.now_utc you can just use DateTime.now_utc.

  def view do
    quote do
      use Phoenix.View, root: "web/templates"
      use Calendar
  #.....

  def controller do
    quote do
      use Phoenix.Controller
      use Calendar
  #.....

  def model do
    quote do
      use Ecto.Model
      use Calecto.Model, usec: true
      use Calendar
    end
  end

For models we also add a line to use Calecto.Model. This adds Calendar functionality to the Ecto models.

Ecto not required

If you want use Phoenix with Calendar, but without Ecto, you can just leave out Calecto.