Answer: Mocking The Time used by all instances of DateTime for testing purposes

answer re: Mocking The Time used by all instances of DateTime for testing purposes

Oct 31 '11

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You should stub the DateTime methods you need in your tests to return expected values.

$stub = $this->getMock('DateTime');
$stub->expects($this->any())
     ->method('theMethodYouNeedToReturnACertainValue')
     ->will($this->returnValue('your certain value'));

See https://phpunit.de/manual/current/en/test-doubles.html

If you cannot stub the methods because they are hardcoded into your code, have a look at

• Stubbing Hard-Coded Dependencies by Sebastian Bergmann

which explains…

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