Documentation error uses create_date() instead of date_create() [#270626]

I've read all the references regarding PHP fatal errors with these functions. I even attempted to apply the following suggestion to our .htaccess file: http://drupal.org/node/263730. Doing so crashes the Drupal Advertisement module.

Every time I try to use create_date() in code, I get a fatal error. For example:

PHP Fatal error:  Call to undefined function create_date() in /htdocs/sites/all/themes/garland/template.php on line 179

We are running PHP 5.2.3 on our development servers and PHP 5.2.6 on our production server.

Comment	File	Size	Author
#4	create_date.patch	1.49 KB	asimmonds
#4

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Comments

Comment #1

ron_s CreditAttribution: ron_s commented 14 June 2008 at 23:08

Also I will add we do not have the Date PHP4 module enabled, since we are running such new versions of PHP. Really saw no reason we needed to do this.

Comment #2

asimmonds CreditAttribution: asimmonds commented 14 June 2008 at 23:54

Should this function be date_create()?

Comment #3

ron_s CreditAttribution: ron_s commented 15 June 2008 at 04:18

Status:

Active

» Needs review

Ah hah! Thank you very much ... that's what I get for following the instructions. :) Please correct the first example in the date/README.txt file to read:

$date = date_create('2007-03-11 02:00:00', timezone_open('America/Chicago'));
$chicago_time = date_format('Y-m-d H:i', $date);

Instead of ...

$date = create_date('2007-03-11 02:00:00', timezone_open('America/Chicago'));
$chicago_time = date_format('Y-m-d H:i', $date);

Comment #4

asimmonds CreditAttribution: asimmonds commented 15 June 2008 at 06:34

Version:	5.x-2.0-rc	» 5.x-2.x-dev
Component:	Code	» Documentation

File	Size
create_date.patch	1.49 KB

And the patch (also fixing another occurrence of create_date())

Comment #5

KarenS CreditAttribution: KarenS commented 15 June 2008 at 11:05

Title:	PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined function create_date()	» Documentation error uses create_date() instead of date_create()
Status:	Needs review	» Fixed

I missed the fact that the documentation had that transposition. Fix committed to both 5.x and 6.x. Thanks!