Question

I’m using fixtures load to write to a datetime field of an entity.

Entity:

/** @ORM\Column(type="datetime", nullable=true) */
protected $date;

I use the following method to set the date:

    public function setDate($date='')
    {
        $fecha = new \DateTime($date);
        $fecha = $fecha->format('Y-m-d');
        $this->date = $fecha;
    }

I only want to use the year, month, day in order to get a sum with a group by dql-query.

When I implement fixtures load I get the following error message:

Fatal error: Call to a member function format() on a non-object in C:\xampp\htdo
cs\brel\vendor\doctrine-dbal\lib\Doctrine\DBAL\Types\DateTimeType.php on line 44

What am I doing wrong here?

Answer 1

Doctrine’s date, time and datetime fields assume that the class property is a \DateTime-instance, not a formatted date-string (the formatting is done via the Type-Mapping in Doctrine DBAL).

You can either create a custom Type (see Doctrine DBAL-documentation) or use a different type (string?).