Bug->Doc #51866 [Asn->Csd]: DateTime::createFromFormat does not match documentation

Edit report at http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=51866&edit=1 ID: 51866 Updated by: salathe@php.net Reported by: smalyshev at sugarcrm dot com Summary: DateTime::createFromFormat does not match documentation -Status: Assigned +Status: Closed -Type: Bug +Type: Documentation Problem Package: Date/time related Operating System: * PHP Version: 5.3SVN-2010-05-20 (SVN) Assigned To: salathe New Comment: This bug has been fixed in SVN. Snapshots of the sources are packaged every three hours; this change will be in the next snapshot. You can grab the snapshot at http://snaps.php.net/. Thank you for the report, and for helping us make PHP better. The description of "!" now matches what the code does, as well as the example that was already available in the documentation. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2010-05-22 21:13:12] salathe@php.net Automatic comment from SVN on behalf of salathe Revision: http://svn.php.net/viewvc/?view=revision&revision=299631 Log: Correct description of special ! character. Fixes #51866 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2010-05-22 19:07:44] derick@php.net The docs are wrong here. If you specify a format letter, that information needs to be there. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2010-05-21 00:05:22] stas@php.net I don't think it's a docs problem - it'd be much better if DateTime actually did what the docs say - at least as one of the options. Without it, if you have a string with date in it, you can not really find out where the date begins and ends and have no way to do parsing of partial dates. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2010-05-20 10:20:06] salathe@php.net I believe this is an issue of documentation rather than implementation, the quoted portion of the manual describes different behaviour than what the code appears to do. I'll assign this to Derick to confirm one way or the other. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2010-05-20 04:02:19] stas@php.net It also would be nice if this function could ignore extra input after the parsing and/or return where it stopped. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=51866 -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=51866&edit=1