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Acubi
Acubi

Reputation: 2783

Why can't display a DateTime object

$date = new DateTime(2011-10-05);
echo $date->format('Y-m-d H:i:s');

Running the above code, the page is displayed nothing. Just wondering is there anything wrong on the code and I used the PHP5 (Version 5.3.0).

Can anyone help me? Thanks in advance!

--Update--- After adding quotes, still nothing is displayed.

$date = new DateTime("2011-10-05");
    echo $date->format('Y-m-d H:i:s');

Upvotes: 1

Views: 478

Answers (5)

dave_k_smith
dave_k_smith

Reputation: 693

Quotes weren't my fix for the "displayed nothing" problem, either (PHP 5.3.10 on Win 7 Enterprise, 64-bit). @gnud's suggestion pointed me to my problem:

Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'Exception' with message 'DateTime::__construct(): It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. You are required to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function.

New code:

$timezone = new DateTimeZone('America/Chicago');
$dateNow = new DateTime('now', $timezone);
echo $dateNow->format('Y-m-d H:i:s');

Gives the expected result:

2012-09-04 17:12:28

Upvotes: 1

fivedigit
fivedigit

Reputation: 18672

You forgot to make the argument you're passing to the DateTime constructor a string. This fixes it:

$date = new DateTime('2011-10-05');

Upvotes: 1

Alex Turpin
Alex Turpin

Reputation: 47776

Well, your code works fine but you did not put the date in quotes, and thus PHP considers it as the formula

2011 - 10 - 05

Which gives 1996. You'll want to give it a string instead. Either way, it works fine.

Upvotes: 1

bfavaretto
bfavaretto

Reputation: 71908

Use quotes around the date when you create the object:

$date = new DateTime("2011-10-05");

Upvotes: 1

ThiefMaster
ThiefMaster

Reputation: 318478

new DateTime(2011-10-05) is equal to new DateTime(1996) and thus makes no sense. You probably meant new DateTime('2011-10-05')

Upvotes: 2

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