如何在PHP中创建UTC日期，可以使用getUTCFullYear（）在javascript中对其进行解析

Question

I am working with kimonolabs worldcup api.

Now the problem is while filtering with startTime field. In the documentation the startTime field is defined as UTC DateTime .

I have generated UTC datetime using PHP like:

gmdate('Y-m-d\TH:i:s\Z', strtotime(date('Y-m-d H:i:s')));

But while running the filtering - the API gives as error saying:

Object 2014-06-21T19:03:47Z has no method 'getUTCFullYear'

I believe that getUTCFullYear() is a javascript function which extracts four digit year value from a date object.

My question is how can I generate a datetime format which will remove the error and give me data?

My API call is like:

http://worldcup.kimonolabs.com/api/matches?status=Pre-game&startTime=2014-06-21T19:03:47Z

Thanks in advance for helping.

Answer 1

I worked on building this API. Mark is correct, the issue was on our end and not with the request you were making. I've made some updates now so it should be able to handle any valid string that can be passed into the javascript Date constructor.

I'm also not sure what exactly you wanted to use the date for, but it seemed unlikely that you wanted to look up matches by an exact timestamp. I thought it would be useful to add the ability to query on less than/greater than values. For timestamps in particular this should allow you to do make much more practical queries.

Here are some possible queries you can make now:

/matches?startTime__lt=2014-06-21T19:03:47Z
/players?birthDate__gt=1990-12-12
/players?goals__gte=2

Hopefully this helps resolve the issues you were having with the API!