How to set a date in Doctrine 2?

Question

I have a field named \"birthday\" in doctrine entity.

I would like to create an object to add to database using doctrine.

Inside the controller :

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Answer 1

$name = "John Alex";
$birthday = "11-11-1990"; // I changed this
$student = new Student();
$student->setName($name);
$student->setBirthday(new \DateTime($birthday)); // setting a new date instance
// ...