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:         novell at att dot net
 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:

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


Previous Comments:
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[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.

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[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.

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[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.

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[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

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[2010-08-04 22:36:58] weirdan at gmail dot com

if this was not intended to work this way, why won't you just fix it so that no 
properties are created as a result of print_r / Reflection::export() / foreach() / 
property_exist / array cast?

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