I have problems getting the date from a DateTime object. I use code like print_r($value->created_at) and it shows me
DateTime Object
(
[date] => 2018-03-10 12:53:18.000000
[timezone_type] => 1
[timezone] => +02:00
) tablet
Now how to get this [date]? I tried with different ways like $value->created_at->date and $value->created_at["date"] but it does not work out.
The names in the [] are the names of the objects properties so
$value->created_at->date
$value->created_at->timezone_type
$value->created_at->timezone
are the only properties available to you
Example
$d = new DateTime('now');
print_r($d);
echo $d->date . PHP_EOL;
echo $d->timezone_type . PHP_EOL;
echo $d->timezone . PHP_EOL;
Result:
DateTime Object
(
[date] => 2018-03-29 11:17:19.000000
[timezone_type] => 3
[timezone] => UTC
)
2018-03-29 11:17:19.000000
3
UTC
If you want convert the date to be a specific format then you can use the ->format() method like this
echo $d->format('d/m/Y h:s');
Result
29/03/2018 11:37
$d and it doesn't exist.
->format() functionalityThis is a \DateTime object http://php.net/manual/en/class.datetime.php
You can get a string representation of the date as you see when var_dumping by using the format method:
$value->created_at->format(\DateTime::ISO8601);
Note that I used the ISO8601 format, you can give any format string you want or use one of the predefined ones, depending on how you want to use this string.
Use this ways,
$date = $value->created_at;
echo $date->format('Y-m-d');
Datetime object, use$value->created_at->format('Y-m-d');