Convert DateTime to String PHP I before researched a lot of Website on how can i convert PHP DateTime object to String. I always see "String to DateTime" and not "DateTime to String" PHP DateTime can be echoed, but what i want to process my DateTime with PHP string functions. Now my question is how can I make PHP dateTime Object to a string starting from this kind of codes <?php $dts = new DateTime(); //this returns the current date time echo strlen($dts); ?> Solution: