Bug #49382 [Com]: can't access DateTime->date

Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=49382&edit=1 ID: 49382 Comment by: valterms at gmail dot com Reported by: klawd at kamundo dot de Summary: can't access DateTime->date Status: Assigned Type: Bug Package: Date/time related Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 PHP Version: 5.3.0 Assigned To: derick Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: How I worked around the problem: ... $dt=new DateTime('2016-07-06 00:00:00'); $tmpObj = (array)($dt); // Only for circumvention, without this line $dt->date return null. $dtx = $dt->date; echo $dtx; // display: 2016-07-06 00:00:00 ... Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2015-12-23 04:03:32] novell at att dot net This may be a duplicate comment - my system hiccuped and I'm not sure the first one was actually sent. print_r also causes the date element of DateTime object to be available the "wrong" way. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/34427627/very-interesting-behavior-of-a-datetime-object-and-access-to-its-elements-bi ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2014-12-08 17:48:27] phpbug at sirdiego dot de Okay, so I don't know if this is new or relevant in any case, but I found something similar to var_dump. php > $object = new \DateTime(); php > echo $object->date . PHP_EOL; PHP Notice: Undefined property: DateTime::$date in php shell code on line 1 PHP Stack trace: PHP 1. {main}() php shell code:0 php > get_object_vars($object); php > echo $object->date . PHP_EOL; 2014-12-08 18:44:15 For me this also an unexpected side-effect and would say it is a bug. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2013-07-09 11:35:13] weirdan at gmail dot com I'd say the bug is not that the property is not present before var_dump'ing object, but that the property is suddenly created. Unexpected side-effect. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2013-07-09 11:29:41] hanskrentel at yahoo dot de I wonder how this qualifies as a bug as any object can have variable properties and accessing undefined ones give notices. Just sounds like standard PHP behavior here. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2012-12-29 17:56:02] info at metashock dot net I think it is interesting that the property can be accessed using reflection. Using the following example I can access the property: $dt = new DateTime(); $o = new ReflectionObject($dt); $p = $o->getProperty('date'); $date = $p->getValue($dt)); // returns the value of DateTime::$date ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The remainder of the comments for this report are too long. To view the rest of the comments, please view the bug report online at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=49382 -- Edit this bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=49382&edit=1