On Sat, Jun 4, 2016 at 9:42 PM, Jordi Boggiano <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 04/06/2016 20:36, Rasmus Schultz wrote:
>
>> I wrote a library that can serialize/unserialize PHP object graphs to JSON
>> data.
>>
>> Somebody reported it doesn't work on the DateTime class.
>>
>> Does this deliberately not work?
>>
>> $date = new DateTime();
>>
>> var_dump($date);
>>
>> outputs:
>>
>> object(DateTime)#1 (3) {
>> ["date"]=>
>> string(19) "2016-06-04 19:30:19"
>> ["timezone_type"]=>
>> int(3)
>> ["timezone"]=>
>> string(3) "UTC"
>> }
>>
>> however, this...
>>
>> $reflection = new ReflectionClass('DateTime');
>>
>> var_dump($reflection->getProperties());
>>
>> outputs:
>>
>> array(0) {
>> }
>>
>> The object clearly has properties corresponding to it's internal state,
>> but
>> reflection doesn't seem to report them?
>>
>
> I can't tell you why it acts like this, but in case you are looking for a
> workaround: https://3v4l.org/V5cfl
>
> Cheers
>
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> Jordi Boggiano
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The simplified workaround is to cast a DateTime object to an array:
https://3v4l.org/DESiq
