Question

I am trying to get the current date/time from SQL 2008 database server using PHP.
When I do a dump on the return variable I see the following –

array (size=1) <br />
  'current_date_time' =>  <br />
    object(DateTime)[1] <br />
      **public 'date' => string '2012-12-18 15:01:35' (length=19)** <br />
      public 'timezone_type' => int 3 <br />
      public 'timezone' => string 'UTC' (length=3) <br />

Question: How do I access the ‘date’ variable only? I tried the following but did not work:

return $row["current_date_time"]->date

Answer 1

$row["current_date_time"]->format('Y-m-d H:i:s');

Should do what you need. It looks like $row["current_date_time"] is a DateTime object.