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PHP PHP Standards and Best Practices Databases and International Concerns Working with DateTime

Placid Rodrigues
Placid Rodrigues
12,630 Points
Posted by Placid Rodrigues
Placid Rodrigues
12,630 Points

Getting Fatal Error: Call to a member function format() on a non-object

Hi, I am getting Fatal Error in the browser when I test the following code as shown in lecture:

<?php

$raw = '10 . 11 . 1968';
$date = DateTime::createFromFormat('d . m. Y', $raw);

?>
<p>The output date is: <?php echo $date->format("m/d/Y"); ?> </p>

The Fatal Error is: Fatal error: Call to a member function format() on a non-object in C:\wamp\www\tt\tt_php_best_practices\date_time.php on line 14

Can anyone please tell me how to solve the issue?

Thanks,

Placid

1 Answer

Jose Soto
Jose Soto
23,407 Points
Jose Soto
Jose Soto
23,407 Points

You're just missing a space after the 'm' character. The CreateFromFormat method of the DateTime object will read the format exactly as it is entered. If it can't create a new DateTime object from that string, then it returns a bool false.

This should work:

<?php

$raw = '10 . 11 . 1968';
$date = DateTime::createFromFormat('d . m . Y', $raw);

?>

<p>The output date is: <?php echo $date->format("m/d/Y"); ?> </p>
Placid Rodrigues
Placid Rodrigues
12,630 Points
Placid Rodrigues
Placid Rodrigues
12,630 Points

Thanks Jose for clear explanation.