sanotto/atk-attribute-yearmonth

ATK Attribute to handle year/month entries in the form YYYY-MM

Year Month Attribute

A YYYY-MM/YYYYMM attribute for ATK9

This attribute lets you specify a month of a year in the following formats:, _(*1)

• YYYYMM

Using

Use it as any other atk Attribute with, _(*2)

    $this->add(new YearMonthAttribute('period', AF_OBLIGATORY));

Why not using a simple numeric attribute instead of this?

Well, using YearMonth attribute will asure you that:, _(*3)

• No years below 1900 and above 2200 are entered.
• No month above 12 (i.e. 201714 will not be deemed valid).

Data base store type

The value will be stored in an int column in the form YYYYMM where:, _(*4)

• YYYY Is the year in 4 digits precision (i.e. 2017)
• MM is the month

Thus 201701 is lower than 201702 and higher than 201612., _(*5)