diff --git a/src/main/resources/php/Swagger.mustache b/src/main/resources/php/Swagger.mustache
index 2a9a44e0cc12..48e2a2f25f9d 100644
--- a/src/main/resources/php/Swagger.mustache
+++ b/src/main/resources/php/Swagger.mustache
@@ -156,6 +156,8 @@ class APIClient {
                                     			 $sub_class);
       }
       return $sub_objects;
+    } elseif ($class == 'DateTime') {
+      		return new DateTime($object);
 		} elseif (in_array($class, array('string', 'int', 'float', 'bool'))) {
 			settype($object, $class);
 			return $object;
diff --git a/src/main/scala/com/wordnik/swagger/codegen/BasicPHPGenerator.scala b/src/main/scala/com/wordnik/swagger/codegen/BasicPHPGenerator.scala
index dd9033e0f209..ab2e45589e09 100644
--- a/src/main/scala/com/wordnik/swagger/codegen/BasicPHPGenerator.scala
+++ b/src/main/scala/com/wordnik/swagger/codegen/BasicPHPGenerator.scala
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ class BasicPHPGenerator extends BasicGenerator {
     "Double" -> "float",
     "Array" -> "array",
     "Boolean" -> "bool",
-    "Date" -> "string",
+    "Date" -> "DateTime",
     "string" -> "string"
     )