Basic PHP and Objects

[Poligu]

Hi,

I consider myself a decent programmer. However, I often run into some problems when I try to learn new things. Right now, I am simply trying to take a date and output in GMT format. To do this, I was at php.net and found the example shown below. However, neither the object style nor the procedural style work for me.

Why is it that my server produces and error for each method?

$date = DateTime::createFromFormat('j-M-Y', '15-Feb-2009');
echo $date->format('Y-m-d');

$date = date_create_from_format('j-M-Y', '15-Feb-2009');
echo date_format($date, 'Y-m-d');


Thanks

[Fou-Lu]

Make sure your error reporting is enabled:

PHP Code:

ini_set('display_errors', 1);
error_reporting(E_ALL); 


Or check the error logs; does it show any error on that call to createFromFormat?

[Poligu]

It tells me that the method DateTime::createFromFormat() is undefined

[Fou-Lu]

Then your PHP version is too old to use DateTime::createFromFormat.
The format you have here though passes gnu specifications for datetime string formats. You can simply replace the line for create from format with $date = new DateTime('15-Feb-2009');