Re: can't reflection on DateTime properties?

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 -- Jordi Boggiano @seldaek - http://seld.be