1--TEST-- 2Test serialization of DateTime objects 3--FILE-- 4<?php 5//Set the default time zone 6date_default_timezone_set("Europe/London"); 7 8$date1 = new DateTime("2005-07-14 22:30:41"); 9var_dump($date1); 10$serialized = serialize($date1); 11var_dump($serialized); 12 13$date2 = unserialize($serialized); 14var_dump($date2); 15// Try to use unserialzied object 16var_dump( $date2->format( "F j, Y, g:i a") ); 17 18?> 19===DONE=== 20--EXPECTF-- 21object(DateTime)#%d (3) { 22 ["date"]=> 23 string(26) "2005-07-14 22:30:41.000000" 24 ["timezone_type"]=> 25 int(3) 26 ["timezone"]=> 27 string(13) "Europe/London" 28} 29string(125) "O:8:"DateTime":3:{s:4:"date";s:26:"2005-07-14 22:30:41.000000";s:13:"timezone_type";i:3;s:8:"timezone";s:13:"Europe/London";}" 30object(DateTime)#%d (3) { 31 ["date"]=> 32 string(26) "2005-07-14 22:30:41.000000" 33 ["timezone_type"]=> 34 int(3) 35 ["timezone"]=> 36 string(13) "Europe/London" 37} 38string(23) "July 14, 2005, 10:30 pm" 39===DONE=== 40