Question

Why is this string being made into an array and how do I stop it please?

Snippet: (to get date)

public function setDate(){
        $this->date = date("Y-m-d");
        return $date;
    }


public function getDate(){
    return $this->date;
}


$date = getDate();

Snippet: (part of query)

        ->where_equal_to(
            array(
                'sales_date' => $date
            )
        )

When you dump the query its doing this…

Output:

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array(1) { ["sales_date"]=> array(11) { ["seconds"]=> int(42) ["minutes"]=> int(10) ["hours"]=> int(14) ["mday"]=> int(3) ["wday"]=> int(1) ["mon"]=> int(10) ["year"]=> int(2011) ["yday"]=> int(275) ["weekday"]=> string(6) "Monday" ["month"]=> string(7) "October" [0]=> int(1317647442) } }

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instead of something like this…

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Output:

array(1) { ["sales_date"]=> "2011-10-03 00:00:00" }

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Answer 1

You’re calling the PHP function getdate() rather than $obj->getDate(), so it’s returning an array based off of the return value from the built-in function.

https://www.php.net/getdate