Hi dear community
I often stumble upon errors manipulating “complex” dates with Kirby. Today’s one is pretty easy to explain.
Why when I write this :
new DateTime('2017-05-22');
it works like a charm, and then when I do this :
new DateTime($event->date('Y-m-d','from'));
I get this error :
DateTime::__construct(): Failed to parse time string (EVENT) at position 0 (T): The timezone could not be found in the database
I’m pretty sure it is not a timezone declaration - or whatever - issue but a bad syntax. The question is what did I get wrong with dates manipulation ? Do I have to turn date('Y-m-d','from') into a string before using it ? Isn’t the output a basic 2017-05-22 string already ?
To be sure, I’ve obviously checked that date('Y-m-d','from') displays a correct date, and it does.
##context
To contextualize this code, I have a structure fields with several events planned for 2017, with a “from” and a “to” date. I sort them by “from” and compare this date with $now = new DateTime() to check if it is not a passed event. So I’m stuck with the comparison.
Thank you in advance guys !