Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=62911&edit=1
ID: 62911 Updated by: der...@php.net Reported by: bdurand-php at ssji dot net Summary: Add DateTime::__toString() -Status: Assigned +Status: Wont fix Type: Feature/Change Request Package: Date/time related PHP Version: Irrelevant Assigned To: willfitch Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: We have had this a few times now, and we should not do this. The main reason is that we will never be able to come to a consensus on which format to show. It certainly shouldn't have anything that destroys the encoded timezone identifiers. It's perfectly possible to subclass DateTime yourself and add a __toString() that returns the datetime in your preferred format though. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2012-08-27 15:15:15] willfi...@php.net This is a good idea. I will add this, but will also add an RFC as I'd like the input of other internals on the output format. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2012-08-23 18:15:37] bdurand-php at ssji dot net Description: ------------ Hello, I want to have a default behavior to convert an instance of the class DateTime into a string. I mean implement the method __toString() in the DateTime class. The default format should be ISO8601 IMHO, but we can add an attribut to define the default format to use for __toString() and format() method. Greetings. Test script: --------------- <?php $datetime = new DateTime(); echo $datetime; Expected result: ---------------- 2012-08-23T20:11:21+0200 Actual result: -------------- PHP Catchable fatal error: Object of class DateTime could not be converted to string in php shell code on line 1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=62911&edit=1
