Pass the Value of a Function to a Variable

RxGx

I am trying to pass the value of a function into a variable. I've tried the following but it doesn't work.

$storyDate = the_time("m-d-y");
$storyTime = the_time();
$storyTitle = the_title();
$permaLink = permalink_link();

I want to do this:

echo <<<EOF;
<div class="padStory"><h3><span class="storyTitle">$storyTitle</span> posted $storyDate
at <a href="$permaLink">$storyTime</a></h3><p>
EOF;
the_content();

Instead of:

echo '<div class="padStory"><h3><span class="storyTitle">'.the_title().'</span> posted '.the_time("m-d-y").'
at <a href="'.permalink_link().'">'.the_time("").'</a></h3><p>';
the_content();

OhLordy

That should work fine. What's the code for the functions?
Cheers
Rob

RxGx

This is for the date:

function the_date($d='', $before='', $after='', $echo = 1) {
	global $id, $postdata, $day, $previousday,$dateformat,$newday;
	$the_date = '';
	if ($day != $previousday) {
		$the_date .= $before;
		if ($d=='') {
			$the_date .= mysql2date($dateformat, $postdata['Date']);
		} else {
			$the_date .= mysql2date($d, $postdata['Date']);
		}
		$the_date .= $after;
		$previousday = $day;
	}
	$the_date = apply_filters('the_date', $the_date);
	if ($echo) {
		echo $the_date;
	} else {
		return $the_date;
	}
}

laserlight

It just wont work.

"the_content()", within the heredoc syntax, is not recognised as a function, it's just some text.

RxGx

the_time("m-d-y"); echos 12/31/03 into the php file.

How can I store this value (which comes from the function) to a variable? I want to keep the HTML intact as much as possible using heredoc so I can create a CMS.

laserlight

just do a
$the_time = the_time("m-d-y");

then you can use $the_time in heredoc syntax.

RxGx

Yep, that's what I am doing.

Is there any other way I can store multiple lines of code without putting all the "\" , "." , and "\n" such droppings in my code?

RxGx

If that's how it's supposed to work, it's not working for me. Thanks anyway for your help.

What does the "->" do?

WinterDragon

the '->' (wherever you see that)... is just calling a function from a current class object...
sooooo

$class->function('something');

would call a function from WITHIN the class object '$class'

soo anyways..


$class = new something;
$class->test();

class something {
       function test($name = 'Test') {
            echo $name;
}}

That would print 'test', very small example, but thats what it would do... hehe, well you can also use a parameter within the 'test' function call, and it would print out whatever you put there, but this is just a very primitive example of OOP in PHP... I think I am getting a bit rusty...
(looks at his nails)