How to create DateTime object from string in symfony2/php

Question

In a DB table I have several fields with datetime as field type. So I need to persist data only as date time object.

From a form I get date time as string l

Answer 1

How about createFromFormat?

http://uk.php.net/manual/en/datetime.createfromformat.php

$from = DateTime::createFromFormat($post['started_at'], 'Y-m-d H:i:s');