'Using DateTime as a one-liner in PHP

A short and simple question which I couldn't really find an answer for.

In procedural PHP I could echo a date 

echo date('Y-m-d'); ?>

In Object oriented PHP I have to use two lines

$now = new DateTime();
echo $now->format('Y-m-d');

Is it possible to do this in one line?

phpdate


Solution 1:[1]

echo (new DateTime())->format('Y-m-d');

Solution 2:[2]

You can try this way:

echo $date = new DateTime('2016-01-01');

Object Oriented Style:

<?php
try {
    $date = new DateTime('2000-01-01');
} catch (Exception $e) {
    echo $e->getMessage();
    exit(1);
}

echo $date->format('Y-m-d');
?>

Procedural Style:

<?php
$date = date_create('2000-01-01');
if (!$date) {
    $e = date_get_last_errors();
    foreach ($e['errors'] as $error) {
        echo "$error\n";
    }
    exit(1);
}

echo date_format($date, 'Y-m-d');
?>

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Solution Source
Solution 1 Eugen Dimboiu
Solution 2 Aman Garg

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