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Date ​

Raxos\DateTime\Date is an immutable date value object based on CakePHP Chronos, with JSON serialization and route parameter parsing support.

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class Date extends ChronosDate implements JsonSerializable, Stringable, StringParsableInterface

Because it extends Cake\Chronos\ChronosDate, every Chronos date method (adding and subtracting days, comparisons, formatting) is available.

Methods ​

jsonSerialize() ​

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public function jsonSerialize(): string

Returns the date formatted as toDateString().

__toString() ​

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public function __toString(): string

Returns the date formatted as toDateString().

fromString() ​

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public static function fromString(string $input): static

Parses the given string into a Date instance through the inherited parse() method.

pattern() ​

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public static function pattern(): string

Returns the regex pattern \d{4}-\d{2}-\d{2} (four digit year, two digit month, two digit day) used to recognize a date in text, for example by raxos/router.

Usage ​

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<?php
declare(strict_types=1);

use Raxos\DateTime\Date;

$date = Date::fromString('2026-07-08');

echo $date->addDays(7)->toDateString(); // "2026-07-15"
echo json_encode($date);                // "2026-07-08"