olajoscs/dateprovider

A simple DateTimeImmutable provider to replace or simulate the "new DateTimeImmutable"

1.0.0 2021-02-25 21:31 UTC

Requires

• php: ^7.0|^8.0

Requires (Dev)

• infection/infection: ^0.21.1
• phpunit/phpunit: ^9.5

MIT

• Csaba Olajos

README

A simple library to replace new \DateTime or new \DateTimImmutable in your code.

Why?

Testing is hard when you have hidden dependencies. Getting the current time is one of them, as it is always changing.

How to use

Classes should depend on the DateProvider interface. There are 2 implementations in the library:

• CurrentDateProvider: returns the current date/time, just like new \DateTimeImmutable, your DI container should instantiate this one
• ExactDateProvider: returns an exact date/time, which can be used to simulate time pass, useful when writing tests.