Cannot save a DateTime object to a datetime field in MySQL - php

Question

Here is my database schema for my MySQL database:
create table noticia
(
id int,
imagen varchar(255),
fecha datetime,
titulo varchar(255),
url varchar(255),
descripcion varchar(255),
contenido text
)
I'm using RedBeanPHP as my ORM to save the information to a database. Here is where I'm scraping and parsing the dates to a DateTime object as per the documentation.
foreach ($element->find('span.fechanoticia') as $fecha) {
$tmp = str_replace("/", "-", $fecha->innertext);
print_r($tmp);
$dateFoo = new DateTime($tmp);
echo $dateFoo->format('Y-m-d H:i:s');
$newItem->set_fechanoticia($dateFoo);
}
The $tmp variable this value for example:
05-09-2012
The echo call to format returns:
2012-09-05 00:00:00
Everything is peachy, and working.
However when I try to save it to the database using RedBeanPHP I get this error:
Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'RedBean_Exception_Security' with
message 'Invalid Bean: property fecha ' in
C:\xampp\htdocs\blog-uvm\rb.php:4880 Stack trace: #0
C:\xampp\htdocs\blog-uvm\rb.php(5108):
RedBean_OODB->check(Object(RedBean_OODBBean)) #1
C:\xampp\htdocs\blog-uvm\rb.php(5082):
RedBean_OODB->storeBean(Object(RedBean_OODBBean)) #2
C:\xampp\htdocs\blog-uvm\rb.php(7005):
RedBean_OODB->store(Object(RedBean_OODBBean)) #3
C:\xampp\htdocs\blog-uvm\index.php(60):
RedBean_Facade::store(Object(RedBean_OODBBean)) #4 {main} thrown in
C:\xampp\htdocs\blog-uvm\rb.php on line 4880
Can RedBeanPHP not handle datetime objects?

Answer 1

As per RedBean's documentation (More data types), you can only save DateTime objects if they are in string form.
For example:
// It's a string - not a DateTime.
$photo->created = '1995-12-05 19:00:00';
In this case the solution should be to save the formatted string, not the DateTime object itself:
$newItem->set_fechanoticia($dateFoo->format('Y-m-d H:i:s'));

Answer 2

found this: http://groups.google.com/group/redbeanorm/browse_thread/thread/6961ac635e6886f6
The Optimizer will now convert columns with datetime values to datetimefields. If a different value is inserted the column will be reverted by OODB in fluid mode.