Monday 26 August 2013

PHP Function date_date_set()

Syntax

void date_date_set ( DateTime $object, int $year, int $month, int $day );

void DateTime::setDate ( int $year, int $month, int $day )

Definition and Usage

These functions set the date into given DateTime object. After this call object will have new date set.
The above two functions are equivalent and any of the functions can be used as shown below in the example.

Paramters

ParameterDescription
objectRequired. DateTime object
yearRequired. Year of the date.
monthRequired. Month of the date.
dayRequired. Day of the date.

Return Value

Returns NULL on success or FALSE on failure.

Example

Following is the usage of this function:
<?php
   $dateSrc = '2005-04-19 12:50 GMT';
   $dateTime = date_create( $dateSrc);;
   # Now set a new date using date_date_set();
   date_date_set( $dateTime, 2000, 12, 12);
   echo "New Formatted date is ". $dateTime->format("Y-m-d\TH:i:s\Z");
   echo "<br />";

   # Using second function.
   $dateTime = new DateTime($dateSrc);
   $dateTime->setDate( 1999, 10, 12);
   echo "New Formatted date is ". $dateTime->format("Y-m-d\TH:i:s\Z");
?> 
This will produce following result:
New Formatted date is 2000-12-12T12:50:00Z
New Formatted date is 1999-10-12T12:50:00Z

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