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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] can't reflection on DateTime properties?
From: j.boggiano@seld.be (Jordi Boggiano)

On 04/06/2016 20:36, Rasmus Schultz wrote:
> I wrote a library that can serialize/unserialize PHP object graphs to JSON
> data.
>
> Somebody reported it doesn't work on the DateTime class.
>
> Does this deliberately not work?
>
>     $date = new DateTime();
>
>     var_dump($date);
>
> outputs:
>
>     object(DateTime)#1 (3) {
>       ["date"]=>
>       string(19) "2016-06-04 19:30:19"
>       ["timezone_type"]=>
>       int(3)
>       ["timezone"]=>
>       string(3) "UTC"
>     }
>
> however, this...
>
>     $reflection = new ReflectionClass('DateTime');
>
>     var_dump($reflection->getProperties());
>
> outputs:
>
>     array(0) {
>     }
>
> The object clearly has properties corresponding to it's internal state, but
> reflection doesn't seem to report them?

I can't tell you why it acts like this, but in case you are looking for 
a workaround: https://3v4l.org/V5cfl

Cheers

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Jordi Boggiano
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