Magento 2: How to use Zend Date

Question

In Magento 1 we are using zend_date in a following manner

new Zend_Date(date, 'MM-dd-Y');    or
new Zend_Date(date('M-01-Y', strtotime("+1 months", strtotime(date("Y-m-d")))));

But how can I use above method in Magento 2 ?

Thank you.

Answer 1

In Magento2 - Replaced Zend_Date with native PHP DateTime object/functions.

So you can use PHP DateTime function in Magento-2

You can get current date by below code.

For Example.

$currentDate = (new \DateTime());
echo $currentDate->format('Y-m-d');

You can get more help from : http://php.net/manual/en/ref.datetime.php

Answer 2

You can do it following way.

new \Zend_Date($date, 'MM-dd-Y');    or
new \Zend_Date(date('M-01-Y', strtotime("+1 months", strtotime(date("Y-m-d")))));

Answer 3

You can also import Zend_Date class at the top of your class file:

use Zend_Date;

Then, your code will work as normal:

$dateObj = new Zend_Date($date, 'MM-dd-Y');

OR, you can directly instantiate the object of the class. For this, you don't need to import the class but have to use "backslash" infront of the Zend_Date class name.

$dateObj = new \Zend_Date($date, 'MM-dd-Y');

Reference: PHP Documentation on Using namespaces: Aliasing/Importing