Stephen Gray's dev blog » date http://blog.s-gray.com e-commerce and integrations Sun, 17 Jan 2010 09:32:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 symfony Unable to parse default value as date/time value: '0000-00-00 00:00:00' http://blog.s-gray.com/2008/09/26/symfony-unable-to-parse-default-value-as-datetime-value-0000-00-00-000000/ http://blog.s-gray.com/2008/09/26/symfony-unable-to-parse-default-value-as-datetime-value-0000-00-00-000000/#comments Fri, 26 Sep 2008 13:53:19 +0000 Stephen http://colourgray.wordpress.com/?p=114 I’ve just made a change to a symfony project’s schema.yml file and tried to rebuild the model and came across this error message:

Unable to parse default value as date/time value: ‘0000-00-00 00:00:00′

Which was stopping the build. After looking at various places, it seems this is a problem with Creole, (propel’s DBAL).

Before PHP v5.2.4, you could do a strtotime on a value of 000-00-00 00:00:00 and you would get a weird date, something in 1999. Not sure why :S Since the 5.2.4 update however this bug has been fixed and you will now get boolean false returned.

The symfony plugin sfGuard, which is widely used, uses 0000-00-00 00:00:00 as a default value in it’s schema for some fields and this will now cause problems. To fix this, edit sfGuard’s schema and change those default values to something like 1970-01-01 and that should do the trick.

Unfortunately Creole isn’t actively maintained anymore so it’s not likely to be updated soon to fix this.

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