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DateTimeImmutable::createFromMutable

(PHP 5 >= 5.6.0, PHP 7, PHP 8)

DateTimeImmutable::createFromMutable — Returns new DateTimeImmutable instance encapsulating the given DateTime object

Description

public static DateTimeImmutable::createFromMutable(DateTime $object): static

Parameters

object: The mutable DateTime object that you want to convert to an immutable version. This object is not modified, but instead a new DateTimeImmutable instance is created containing the same date time and timezone information.

Return Values

Returns a new DateTimeImmutable instance.

Changelog

Version	Description
8.0.0	The method returns an instance of the currently invoked class now. Previously, it created a new instance of DateTimeImmutable.

Examples

Example #1 Creating an immutable date time object

<?php
$date = new DateTime("2014-06-20 11:45 Europe/London");

$immutable = DateTimeImmutable::createFromMutable( $date );
?>

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Julien ¶

7 years ago


For PHP < 5.6

<?php
$date = new DateTime("now", new DateTimeZone("Europe/Paris"));
echo $date->format(DateTime::ISO8601) . PHP_EOL; // 2016-12-08T10:42:59+0100

$datei = DateTimeImmutable::createFromFormat(DateTime::ISO8601, $date->format(DateTime::ISO8601));
echo $datei->format(DateTime::ISO8601) . PHP_EOL; // 2016-12-08T10:42:59+0100
?>

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