DateObject and Nulls

[Jonob]

Hi all,

 

I have an array mapped to a value object. One of the items in the array is a PHP DateObject, and I need to format this field appropriately.

 

When looping through the array, I pass this field to a function as follows: (simplified for expendiency)

if (!is_null($date))
{
  return date_format($date, "Y-m-d");
}

This works great, except for the case when the DateObject contains a null value - in this case the above function seems to always return the current date.

 

I am guessing that this is because $date is not really null (i.e. it contains an object, even though the object is null), but I am not sure how to get around this.

 

Any help greatly appreciated.

 

[salathe]

There is no DateObject in the PHP core, is this a user-defined class or do you mean DateTime? Also, your code snippet only deals with the $date value being not null which won't affect any null value.