Newsgroups: php.internals
Path: news.php.net
Xref: news.php.net php.internals:64220
Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm
Received-SPF: pass (pb1.pair.com: domain gmail.com designates 209.85.215.170 as permitted sender)
MIME-Version: 1.0
Sender: sebastian.krebs.berlin@gmail.com
In-Reply-To: <4ED7146272E04A47B986ED49E771E347BB362B68DE@Ikarus.ameusgmbh.intern>
References: <4ED7146272E04A47B986ED49E771E347BB362B68DE@Ikarus.ameusgmbh.intern>
Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2012 13:23:01 +0100
Message-ID: <CALtuQzCARoLcLB5xm4R1oe2+O55d=P3KuUUUu_=hoz08PwZnRw@mail.gmail.com>
To: PHP internals list <internals@lists.php.net>
Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=047d7b6226b0608cf704d07ea0f4
Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Improve DateTime Class
From: krebs.seb@gmail.com (Sebastian Krebs)

--047d7b6226b0608cf704d07ea0f4
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

Hi,

are you mabe just looking for

$date->add(new DateInterval('P15D'));

?


2012/12/10 Christian Stoller <stoller@leonex.de>

> Hi internals,
>
> what do you think about improving the modification functionality of the
> DateTime class. I always get a cold shiver, when I write something like
> this:
> <?php
> $date =3D new DateTime()
> $date->modify(=91+15 day=92);
>
> In my opinion it would be nicer if one could write:
> $date->modify(15, DateTime::INTERVAL_DAY); // for adding 15 days
> $date->modify(-15, DateTime::INTERVAL_DAY); // for subtracting 15 days
>
> Even better would be to have methods like addDays(), addMonths(), etc.
>
> This would make it cleaner and more readable. You do not have to do
> something like this:
>
> $date =3D new DateTime();
> $date->modify(getDaysToAddMethod() . " day"); // I am not sure if a '+'
> sign is needed if the value is positive
>
> And it is fully backward compatible.
>
> Best regards
> Christian
>
>


--=20
github.com/KingCrunch

--047d7b6226b0608cf704d07ea0f4--