DateTime

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Basic Usage
Options
- message
- payload

DateTime

Validates that a value is a valid "datetime", meaning either a DateTime object or a string (or an object that can be cast into a string) that follows a valid YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS format.

Applies to	property or method
Options	message payload
Class	DateTime
Validator	DateTimeValidator

Basic Usage

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        // src/AppBundle/Entity/Author.php
namespace AppBundle\Entity;

use Symfony\Component\Validator\Constraints as Assert;

class Author
{
    /**
     * @Assert\DateTime()
     */
     protected $createdAt;
}
    

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        # src/AppBundle/Resources/config/validation.yml
AppBundle\Entity\Author:
    properties:
        createdAt:
            - DateTime: ~
    

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        <!-- src/AppBundle/Resources/config/validation.xml -->
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<constraint-mapping xmlns="http://symfony.com/schema/dic/constraint-mapping"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://symfony.com/schema/dic/constraint-mapping http://symfony.com/schema/dic/constraint-mapping/constraint-mapping-1.0.xsd">

    <class name="AppBundle\Entity\Author">
        <property name="createdAt">
            <constraint name="DateTime" />
        </property>
    </class>
</constraint-mapping>
    

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        // src/AppBundle/Entity/Author.php
namespace AppBundle\Entity;

use Symfony\Component\Validator\Mapping\ClassMetadata;
use Symfony\Component\Validator\Constraints as Assert;

class Author
{
    public static function loadValidatorMetadata(ClassMetadata $metadata)
    {
        $metadata->addPropertyConstraint('createdAt', new Assert\DateTime());
    }
}
    

Options

message

type: string default: This value is not a valid datetime.

This message is shown if the underlying data is not a valid datetime.

payload

type: mixed default: null

2.6

The payload option was introduced in Symfony 2.6.

This option can be used to attach arbitrary domain-specific data to a constraint. The configured payload is not used by the Validator component, but its processing is completely up to you.

For example, you may want to use several error levels to present failed constraints differently in the front-end depending on the severity of the error.

This work, including the code samples, is licensed under a Creative Commons BY-SA 3.0 license.

DateTime

DateTime

Basic Usage

Options

message

payload

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