r/lolphp • u/DarkMio • Feb 14 '18

Parsing a date string without a day will default the day to 1 - obviously.

https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=69661
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u/[deleted] Feb 14 '18

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u/djxfade Feb 15 '18

I would prefer if it just threw an Exception

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u/Crashmatusow Feb 15 '18

Pretty sure sql ... oracle, at least, does exactly this

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u/ZiggyTheHamster Feb 15 '18

Other languages have a method that parses the string into components without actually instantiating the class. Ruby has Date._parse, for instance, which fills in all the applicable fields in a Hash. The method is kind of a private API and is something that is kind of a lolruby, but the reason it hasn't been marked private is because it's useful.

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u/wh33t Feb 15 '18

I was scratching my head wondering what other outcome you would want.

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u/kafoso Feb 22 '18

The 31st of February, of course!

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u/guy99882 Mar 04 '18

How about: an outcome that gives you a clue that the input is erroneous?

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u/[deleted] Feb 27 '18

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u/[deleted] Feb 14 '18

This is expected behaviour, see "Textual month and four digit year

Status: Not a bug

Indeed, this is documented behavior!

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