Question

In a DB table I have several fields with datetime as field type. So I need to persist data only as date time object.

From a form I get date time as string like

2012-10-05 17:45:54

Now when ever I persist my entity I get following error:

Fatal error: Call to a member function format() on a non-object in
..\DateTimeType.php on line 44

I tried with

$protocol->setStartedAt(strtotime($post['started_at']));

or

$from = \DateTime::createFromFormat('yy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss', $post['started_at']);
$protocol->setStartedAt($from);

or just

$from = new \DateTime($post['started_at']);
$protocol->setStartedAt($from);

The last code works but it does not uses the timestamp passed as arguement but just gets the current time.

Any ideas?

Answer 1

I always create a DateTime object with its constructor, in your case it would be:

$protocol->setStartedAt(new \DateTime($post['started_at']));

if this works but does not use the timestamp posted you probably do not have the value in $post['started_at']. Try debugging it or just do the dirty trick:

die($post['started_at']);