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PHP 5 tips: DateTime class
2007-10-07 11:56:01 by Martynas Jusevičius
PHP 5.2 introduced new DateTime and DateTimeZone classes, which obsolete the datetime functions. They offer a convenient way to store dates and time as objects, instead of strings or integers. Classes also have a better time zone support as well as support for dates outside of the Unix epoch.
But the API, while useful, is rather over-simplified and under-documentented. Here is a good introduction to the API with lots of examples: Looking at PHP5’s DateTime and DateTimeZone by Laughing Meme.
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If you think it's poorly documented (I tend to agree with this), please contact phpdoc@lists.php.net and give a hand to the documentation team, that's always appreciated.
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That's cool, I didn't know about it.
2007-10-07 14:35:46 by Antony Dovgal