I have a variable of type DateTime() and I want to get only the date of it to compare it with an other date variable. Here is how I tried to do that, but I get extra data that I don't need:
date_default_timezone_set('Africa/Tunis');
$date= new \DateTime('today');
$date->format('d/m/Y');
var_dump($date)
returns : object(DateTime)#617 (3) { ["date"]=> string(19) "2017-04-09 00:00:00" ["timezone_type"]=> int(3) ["timezone"]=> string(12) "Africa/Tunis" }
So I want to get something like this : 09/04/2017
UPDATE: This is my action code (I have a form in twig that contains a date type input) :
public function addArtAction(Request $request)
{
$article=new article();
$em=$this->getDoctrine()->getManager();
$title=$request->request->get('titre');
$content=$request->files->get('contenu');
$dtePub=$request->request->get('date');
date_default_timezone_set('Africa/Tunis');
$datee= new \DateTime('today');
$date=$datee->format('d/m/Y');
if($dtePub==$date)
{
$article->setTitre($title);
$article->setCorps($content);
$article->setEtat(true);
$article->setDtePub($date);
$em->persist($article);
$em->flush();
$this->get('session')->getFlashBag()->add('success','Votre article a été archivé!');
}
elseif($dtePub>$date)
{
$article->setTitre($title);
$article->setCorps($content);
$article->setEtat(false);
$article->setDteArch($date);
$article->setDtePub($dtePub);
$em->persist($article);
$em->flush();
$this->get('session')->getFlashBag()->add('success','Votre article a été publié avec succès!');
}
elseif($dtePub<$date)
{
$this->get('session')->getFlashBag()->add('failure','Vous devez choisir une future date!');
}
var_dump($date);
}
For this, we will use the strptime() method and Pandas module. This method is used to create a DateTime object from a string. Then we will extract the date from the DateTime object using the date() function and dt. date from Pandas in Python.
To create a date from user input:Use the input() function to take a value formatted as YYYY-MM-DD . Split the input value on the hyphens and convert the date components to integers. Use the date() class from the datetime module to create the date.
Python provides the strptime() method, in its datetime class, to convert a string representation of the date/time into a date object.
You were doing it (almost right). For reference here a copy-paste your code:
date_default_timezone_set('Africa/Tunis');
$date= new \DateTime('today');
$date->format('d/m/Y');
The last line returns the desired string. If you want to output that you can just echo
it:
echo $date->format('d/m/Y');
Basically your misunderstanding was that the format
method does not modify the $date
object, but only return the desired string. If you look at the documentation for the format
method you will find:
Returns date formatted according to given format
It says "returns" with which means returned to the context of the call: the expression of the call 'is substituted' by the returned value. If it would output it in the function, then the manual would have said something like "prints" or "outputs" or "dumps". You can read more about what 'returning a value' means in this part of the manual. The first example shows the exact equivalent of what you tried to do:
Example #1 Use of return
<?php function square($num) { return $num * $num; } echo square(4); // outputs '16'. ?>
Lastly, with regards to the use of var_dump
: please note that this is intended for debugging purposes and normally not for displaying output to the user. var_dump
will normally just dump "All public, private and protected properties of objects" of the given object. You should check the var_dump
manual pages it contains many examples.
Use format:
$date->format('d/m/Y');
or
$date->format('m/d/Y');
(I don't know your locale preferences)
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