PHP echo doesn't work as expected
I have the following PHP code:
$ep1 = $tvdb->getEpisodeById($cur->id, 'en');
var_dump($ep1);
It returns this:
object(TvDb\Episode)#60 (17) {
["id"]=> int(4490826)
["number"]=> int(12)
["season"]=> int(3)
["directors"]=> array(0) { }
["guestStars"]=> array(0) { }
["writers"]=> array(0) { }
["name"]=> string(11) "Episode 312"
["firstAired"]=> object(DateTime)#57 (3) {
["date"]=> string(19) "2013-04-07 00:00:00"
["timezone_type"]=> int(3)
["timezone"]=> string(12) "Europe/Sofia"
}
["imdbId"]=> string(0) ""
["language"]=> string(2) "en"
["overview"]=> string(0) ""
["rating"]=> string(1) "0"
["ratingCount"]=> int(0)
["lastUpdated"]=> object(DateTime)#3 (3) {
["date"]=> string(19) "2013-01-30 22:15:41"
["timezone_type"]=> int(1)
["timezone"]=> string(6) "+00:00"
}
["seasonId"]=> int(501077)
["serieId"]=> int(161511)
["thumbnail"]=> string(0) ""
}
I want to echo "date" and write the following:
$ep1 = $tvdb->getEpisodeById($cur->id, 'en');
echo ($ep1->firstAired->date);
And it returns nothing, but when I do this:
$ep1 = $tvdb->getEpisodeById($cur->id, 'en');
var_dump($ep1);
echo ($ep1->firstAired->date);
And after the dump, the date shows:
object(TvDb\Episode)#60 (17) { ["id"]=> int(4490826) ["number"]=> int(12) ["season"]=> int(3) ["directors"]=> array(0) { } ["guestStars"]=> array(0) { } ["writers"]=> array(0) { } ["name"]=> string(11) "Episode 312" ["firstAired"]=> object(DateTime)#57 (3) { ["date"]=> string(19) "2013-04-07 00:00:00" ["timezone_type"]=> int(3) ["timezone"]=> string(12) "Europe/Sofia" } ["imdbId"]=> string(0) "" ["language"]=> string(2) "en" ["overview"]=> string(0) "" ["rating"]=> string(1) "0" ["ratingCount"]=> int(0) ["lastUpdated"]=> object(DateTime)#3 (3) { ["date"]=> string(19) "2013-01-30 22:15:41" ["timezone_type"]=> int(1) ["timezone"]=> string(6) "+00:00" } ["seasonId"]=> int(501077) ["serieId"]=> int(161511) ["thumbnail"]=> string(0) "" } 2013-04-07 00:00:0
I don't have this problem with:
$ep1 = $tvdb->getEpisodeById($cur->id, 'en');
echo ($ep1->name);
I hope I've been clear enough and I'm sorry if this is a stupid question. Thank you for your time.
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It's actually really, really weird, at least to me. I tested to first display the date property like you did and it didn't work, then I decided to add print_r to see the properties ... And then I was able to print the date string.
This is my code:
$d = new DateTime();
print_r($d);
echo $d->timezone . PHP_EOL;
echo $d->date . PHP_EOL;
And doing it like this works fine, however I remove the line print_r
, it doesn't work.
My system is Windows 8 with php 5.3 running in a shell and here's my proof:
So you can say that you can do it, you just need to do print_r first and it probably won't work on all systems.: D
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