Comments on: Cool DateTime Functions In PHP 5.3 http://www.brandonsavage.net/cool-datetime-functions-in-php-5-3/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=cool-datetime-functions-in-php-5-3 The personal blog of Brandon Savage. Contains entries of a personal and professional nature focusing on PHP, Apple, LAMP, MySQL and Washington, DC. Wed, 15 May 2013 14:54:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.2-alpha By: Andy Thompson http://www.brandonsavage.net/cool-datetime-functions-in-php-5-3/#comment-2913 Andy Thompson Wed, 27 Jan 2010 20:19:20 +0000 http://www.brandonsavage.net/?p=1157#comment-2913 @Nicolas so is time() :)

]]> By: Nicolas http://www.brandonsavage.net/cool-datetime-functions-in-php-5-3/#comment-2909 Nicolas Mon, 25 Jan 2010 18:58:08 +0000 http://www.brandonsavage.net/?p=1157#comment-2909 date(‘U’); // <— this works great if you want the current unix timestamp

]]> By: Joseph Scott http://www.brandonsavage.net/cool-datetime-functions-in-php-5-3/#comment-2908 Joseph Scott Mon, 25 Jan 2010 17:40:13 +0000 http://www.brandonsavage.net/?p=1157#comment-2908 I like the features, but the syntax just seems purposely odd.

PostgreSQL has supported this type of date/time transformations with some very straight forward syntax – http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/interactive/functions-datetime.html

]]> By: James Thompson http://www.brandonsavage.net/cool-datetime-functions-in-php-5-3/#comment-2907 James Thompson Mon, 25 Jan 2010 15:35:20 +0000 http://www.brandonsavage.net/?p=1157#comment-2907 I like using this to display the run time of a script (especially those long ones that might take 30 minutes to run).

What’s great about using an object is that you have a lot of built in functionality that you would have to otherwise build in yourself.

]]> By: devnotes http://www.brandonsavage.net/cool-datetime-functions-in-php-5-3/#comment-2904 devnotes Mon, 25 Jan 2010 13:59:30 +0000 http://www.brandonsavage.net/?p=1157#comment-2904 thanksa lot for this article, i didn’t know much about datetime object in php…

]]> By: Jordan Walker http://www.brandonsavage.net/cool-datetime-functions-in-php-5-3/#comment-2903 Jordan Walker Mon, 25 Jan 2010 13:59:03 +0000 http://www.brandonsavage.net/?p=1157#comment-2903 Thanks for the write up, was not away of this new object. Should make development that much better!

]]> By: Andy Thompson http://www.brandonsavage.net/cool-datetime-functions-in-php-5-3/#comment-2902 Andy Thompson Mon, 25 Jan 2010 07:56:28 +0000 http://www.brandonsavage.net/?p=1157#comment-2902 Yes, I started using DateTime recently because of its representation being better than using date strings, and it’s ability to represent a much larger date range than unix timestamps.

On the Zend Framework contributors mailing list, there’s a discussion at the moment of the possibility of scrapping Zend_Date or extending DateTime sometime in the future. Zend_Date uses mktime internally, so not as good.

Before PHP 5.3, you are able to run “$date->format(‘U’)” and “new DateTime(‘@’.$timestamp)”, rather than having to run the functions you mentioned.

Your diff example appears to be missing some code.

]]> By: Mark van der Velden http://www.brandonsavage.net/cool-datetime-functions-in-php-5-3/#comment-2901 Mark van der Velden Mon, 25 Jan 2010 07:53:19 +0000 http://www.brandonsavage.net/?p=1157#comment-2901 Hmm, using strip_tags() where you shouldn’t be using them?
Attempt two: http://pastebin.com/f62cdf95f

]]> By: Mark van der Velden http://www.brandonsavage.net/cool-datetime-functions-in-php-5-3/#comment-2900 Mark van der Velden Mon, 25 Jan 2010 07:46:44 +0000 http://www.brandonsavage.net/?p=1157#comment-2900 Another fine DateTime feature is native comparing:

<?php
$dateStart = new DateTime('yesterday');
$dateEnd = new DateTime('tomorrow');
if ($dateEnd

]]> By: Les http://www.brandonsavage.net/cool-datetime-functions-in-php-5-3/#comment-2899 Les Mon, 25 Jan 2010 07:45:02 +0000 http://www.brandonsavage.net/?p=1157#comment-2899 For some (perverse?) reason I feel I had to wrap Date around my own classes to utilise the new functionality… maybe I just favour my own API?

]]> By: Hari K T http://www.brandonsavage.net/cool-datetime-functions-in-php-5-3/#comment-2898 Hari K T Mon, 25 Jan 2010 07:35:57 +0000 http://www.brandonsavage.net/?p=1157#comment-2898 Is there any code missing in second example ?

diff($dt2));
?>

I think there is some ;)

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