Edit report at http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=54660&edit=1
ID: 54660
User updated by: giorgio dot liscio at email dot it
Reported by: giorgio dot liscio at email dot it
Summary: DateInterval Fatal error: main(): Unknown property
(h)
-Status: Feedback
+Status: Open
Type: Bug
Package: Date/time related
Operating System: any?
PHP Version: 5.3.6
Block user comment: N
Private report: N
New Comment:
reopened feedback provided
Previous Comments:
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[2011-05-04 17:51:56] giorgio dot liscio at email dot it
hi derick, thank you, i will try! read my suggests anyway!!
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[2011-05-04 17:50:23] giorgio dot liscio at email dot it
please read carefully because DateInterval is really ambiguous
since it is just introduced in php5.3 can be modified before lot of
users starts to use this lib
what is ambiguous:
i can do, for example: $datetimeobj->diff($datetimeobj2, FALSE); to
obtain a dateinterval with negative values ( read: $obj->h = -1 )
but i can't do DateInterval::createFromDateString("-1 hour");
i don't know how ambiguity will be resolved, but my suggests are:
SOLUTION 1
{
- drop ->invert and allow negative values to ->y ->m ->d ->h ->i ->s
->diff() second parameter works good now
- add a method to dateInterval to invert all values ( ->invertAll() )
that not sets ->invert, but inverts single properties ( $this->h =
$this->h * -1; )
- modify constructor to match the new logic
iso8601 seems do not allow negative single values, but can be good to
have a constructor like this:
public DateInterval::__construct( string $interval_spec , bool
$invertAllValues)
that converts P2Y4DT6H8M in an hypothetically P -2Y -4D T -6H -8M
- drop ->add and ->sub from DateTime class and implement ->change that
offers same functionality and more when used with negative intervals and
positive intervals
}
SOLUTION 2
{
DateInterval properties ymdhis should be always >=0
- DateTime->diff() should not never returns an object with negative
values, but should flag inverted intervals using ->invert = TRUE
- drop ->add and ->sub and implement ->change that offers same
functionality
$a = DateInterval("P1Y");
$datetime->change($a); // add
$a->invert = true;
$datetime->change($a) // subtract
}
i sincerely prefer the first version because mixing negative and
positive single values would be nice
(DateIntervall::createFromDateString("1 year 1 month -10 days"))
but i will like any solution that resolves the ambiguities of this class
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[2011-05-04 17:19:09] der...@php.net
Please try using this snapshot:
http://snaps.php.net/php5.3-latest.tar.gz
For Windows:
http://windows.php.net/snapshots/
This works fine for me:
derick@whisky:~$ php -v
PHP 5.3.7-dev (cli) (built: May 4 2011 09:16:17) (DEBUG)
<?php
$a = \DateInterval::createFromDateString("1 month 1 hour");
echo $a->h; // ok
$a = \DateInterval::createFromDateString("1 month 0 hour");
echo $a->h; // ok
$a = \DateInterval::createFromDateString("1 month -1 hour");
echo $a->h; // fatal error, ->h is not defined
?>
10-1
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[2011-05-04 16:54:49] giorgio dot liscio at email dot it
Description:
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hi,
$a = \DateInterval::createFromDateString("1 month 1 hour");
echo $a->h; // ok
$a = \DateInterval::createFromDateString("1 month 0 hour");
echo $a->h; // ok
$a = \DateInterval::createFromDateString("1 month -1 hour");
echo $a->h; // fatal error, ->h is not defined
Fatal error: main(): Unknown property (h) in ...index.php on line 30
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