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Bug #78055 DatePeriod recurrences changing after creation
Submitted: 2019-05-23 12:31 UTC Modified: 2021-04-06 19:08 UTC
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From: kb2kztynisv99h3ykx at mail dot uebernickel dot info Assigned: derick (profile)
Status: Closed Package: Documentation problem
PHP Version: 7.3.5 OS: macOS
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
 [2019-05-23 12:31 UTC] kb2kztynisv99h3ykx at mail dot uebernickel dot info
Description:
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When creating a DatePeriod object using the "recurrences" constructor, it internally changes the counter by increasing it by 1.

As the test script illustrates the expectation would be to have the given count of iterations, but it actually contains one more.

The documentation at https://www.php.net/manual/en/class.dateperiod.php misses the details. My guess is some relation to the "include start date" option.


Test script:
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<?php

$start = new DateTime('2018-12-31 00:00:00');
$interval = new DateInterval('P1M');
$recurrences = 5;

$period = new DatePeriod($start, $interval, $recurrences);
$dates = iterator_to_array($period);

assert($recurrences === $period->recurrences, 'The recurrences should match.');
assert($recurrences === count($dates), 'The iterator count should match the recurrences.');

var_dump(array_map(function(DateTime $date) { 
    return $date->format('Y-m-d'); 
}, iterator_to_array($period)));


Expected result:
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My expectation would be to have 5 dates even when including the start date.

Actual result:
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The actual result are 6 dates within the iterator.


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 [2019-05-23 14:01 UTC] sjon@php.net
Looking at Bug #75113 - using the recurrences property is not really supported - maybe that should be removed in the documentation now that getRecurrences is available?
 [2019-09-23 10:30 UTC] mkroese at eljakim dot nl
> - maybe that should be removed in the documentation now that getRecurrences is available?

Or the documentation of the property and/or the getter should be improved. Also, I'd expect getRecurrences() and ->recurrences to yield the same value.

The literal documentation for the $recurrences property is:

> The number of recurrences, if the DatePeriod instance had been created by explicitly passing $recurrences. ***See also DatePeriod::getRecurrences().***

however the documentation regarding DatePeriod::getRecurrences() does not note any difference with the $recurrences property.
 [2020-01-20 17:19 UTC] girgias@php.net
-Assigned To: +Assigned To: derick
 [2021-04-06 19:08 UTC] derick@php.net
-Package: Date/time related +Package: Documentation problem
 [2022-10-19 15:09 UTC] git@php.net
Automatic comment on behalf of derickr
Revision: https://github.com/php/doc-en/commit/c401af11b147e38be7ec09d8267f377269beeba3
Log: Fixed bug #78055: Documentation improvement for DatePeriod::getRecurrences and -&gt;recurrences
 [2022-10-19 15:09 UTC] git@php.net
-Status: Assigned +Status: Closed
 [2022-10-19 17:58 UTC] git@php.net
Automatic comment on behalf of mumumu
Revision: https://github.com/php/doc-ja/commit/0b4d90f6af4fda535284102d319fc407563e7ccc
Log: Fixed bug #78055: Documentation improvement for DatePeriod::getRecurrences and -&gt;recurrences
 
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