Date and time

[Anon]

I tell you I have had the worst time getting things to work right! 🙂 Oh well, here's what I need to do:

I need to use PHPs Time and Date functions and write them to a variable in this format

mm/dd hh:mm and write it to a variable so that when that command is run, it will the the current date and time to the assigned variable.

Thanks again,

Seth

[Anon]

Well, lets assume that when you say "command" you really mean function (I'm really not sure, so that is the premise I will use, you should be able to adapt it.) Take a look here:

http://www.php.net/date

This will show you how to use the date() function in php. The function you really want is this:

function get_date() {
// The format for mm/dd hh:mm is m/d h:i
$current_date = date("m/d h:i");

// now return it.
return $current_date;
}

Now, in your code, if you do:

$date = get_date();

The variable $date will contain the current date in the format mm/dd hh:mm. Hope that helps!

Chris King

[reagent]

Why would you write it this way and not

$date = date("m/d h:i");

Unless you are doing it that way so that the function is reusable. In that case, it may make more sense to define a formatting constant to use in all the date() calls

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