PHP Datetime转换为RFC 3339字符串date到datetime类型

Question

I need a datetime as RFC3339 its for an api request from their documentation

parameter type:datetime

format : RFC3339

example: 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here is my code for convert datetime to RFC3339

$datetime= date("c", strtotime("2014-03-10 05:40:00")); 

it gives 2014-03-10T05:40:00+01:00 ,but i will get error message from the api it says wrong date parameter

var_dump($datetime) gives type as string but i need the type as datetime so how can i convert RFC339 string date to datetime?

Answer 1

Php has predefined constants for most formats. You can simply use

date(DATE_RFC3339);

or

date(DATE_ATOM);

date('c') is for a different format ISO 8601.

Also, there is no "datetime" type in php. It's always going to return a string.