New Methods

Several new methods were introduced in 5.3.0:

Date/Time:

• DateTime::add() - Adds an amount of days, months, years, hours, minutes and seconds to a DateTime object.
• DateTime::createFromFormat() - Returns a new DateTime object formatted according to the given format.
• DateTime::diff() - Returns the difference between two DateTime objects.
• DateTime::getLastErrors() - Returns the warnings and errors from the last date/time operation.
• DateTime::sub() - Subtracts an amount of days, months, years, hours, minutes and seconds from a DateTime object.

Exception:

• Exception::getPrevious() - Retrieves the previous exception.

DOM:

• DOMNode::getLineNo() - Get the line number of a parsed node.

PDO_FIREBIRD:

• PDO::setAttribute() - Sets an attribute.

Reflection:

• ReflectionClass::getNamespaceName - Returns the name of namespace where this class is defined.
• ReflectionClass::getShortName - Returns the short name of this class (without namespace part).
• ReflectionClass::inNamespace - Returns whether this class is defined in a namespace.
• ReflectionFunction::getNamespaceName - Returns the name of namespace where this function is defined.
• ReflectionFunction::getShortName - Returns the short name of the function (without namespace part).
• ReflectionFunction::inNamespace - Returns whether this function is defined in a namespace.
• ReflectionProperty::setAccessible - Sets whether non-public properties can be requested.

SPL:

• SplObjectStorage::addAll() - Add all elements from another SplObjectStorage object.
• SplObjectStorage::removeAll() - Remove all elements from another SplObjectStorage object.

XSL:

• XSLTProcessor::setProfiling() - Sets the profiling output file.