Question

I have written my own class that extends DateTime. What I haven’t been able to figure out override the static createFromFormat() so it returns an instance of my subclass. Is this even possible? Thanks!

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Joeren Offerjins gets the credit, but question is the same as mine, and has the answer I was looking for: Make DateTime::createFromFormat() return child class instead of parent

Answer 1

class Custom_DateTime extends DateTime
{
    static public function createFromFormat($format, $time)
    {
        return new static();
    }
}

I might be missing something here – why wouldn’t this just work?