How do I get a DateTime from a timestamp field?

joachim

11/30/23, 2:15 PM

Suppose I have a timestamp base field on an entity type. I can do $entity->timefield->value and get the UNIX timestamp.

But how do I get a DateTime object from this?

I can see there is a Timestamp::getDateTime() method which does exactly what I want. But that's the DataType class.

The field definition, TimestampItem, defines the 'value' property as a 'timestamp', so that is the Timestamp datatype. But I can't figure out how to get from one to the other.

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4uk4

11/30/23, 2:28 PM

You can instantiate a Datetime object with a Unix timestamp.

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cilefen

11/30/23, 4:15 PM

Instantiate a DrupalDateTime object with new DrupalDateTime::createFromTimestamp.

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joachim

12/1/23, 3:03 PM

Is there not a more elegant way? How can I leverage Timestamp::getDateTime()? More generally, given a field item, how do you get the typed data item for one of its properties?

4uk4

12/2/23, 1:45 PM

Use the method get(), see https://drupal.stackexchange.com/questions/305408/fielditemlistgetvalue-always-returns-a-string-even-for-a-boolean-field

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