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Hi,

I've sorry, I've only been developing using CiviCRM for a couple of weeks but am stuck on how to specify a date parameter in an API call. I want to see if there's an existing contribution from a contact of a specific type and amount and date, but if I specify the date, I get a "Fatal error".

In the API Explorer if I try calling this:

$results=civicrm_api("Contribution","get",
  array (version => '3',
    'page' =>'CiviCRM',
    'q' =>'civicrm/ajax/rest',
    'sequential' =>'1',
    'contact_id' =>'29',
    'contribution_type_id' =>'2',
    'receive_date' =>'2011-05-23'));

I get this back:

{
   "is_error":1,
   "error_message":"A fatal error was triggered",
   "trace":"#0/CRM\/Utils\/Type.php(221): CRM_Core_Error::fatal('Cannot recogniz...')\n
[etc.]
}

I've tried the same in PHP giving the API an actual DateTime object with the same problem.

I'd be happy saying "return me all the transactions with this amount any time on this date" if that's a better way.

Any tips gratefully received.
Thanks

By the time the api wrapper has passed your date through to the underlying function the date should be in the format '20110523000000' as long as you have provided a strtotime parsable time string - so changing what you pass in might not help.

The rest of the backtrace would though.