Date Function Help

mcadle

Hello all,

I would first like to say that I am a complete idiot with php apparently. That said onto the prob. I have a php header file (header.php) that contains a list of functions. This file is parsed by the index.php and pulls necessary functions from it to construct the page.

One function is called head. The prob is that I just want a date to appear in an html table but I can't get it to work. I have tried echo ' and " but to no avail. Well here is the code. I will cut it down for the sake of time.

<?php
function head() {
global $slogan, etc..

All that happens is an error stating "expecting (') or (") line whatever. The line number is the line with the date function. Apparently, I am missing something REALLY basic and for that I apologize. Any help is really appreciated.

Mordecai

Originally posted by mcadle
<?php
function head() {
global $slogan, etc..

<table><tr><td>echo date("D M j Y");</td></tr></table>;
}
?>

Well, you can't just put HTML inside PHP, and vice-versa. What you want is something like this:

function head() {
  global $slogan, $etc; // or whatever your globals are
  echo '<table><tr><td>', date('D M j Y'), '</td></tr></table>';
}

Note that each separate element of the echo is separated by a comma--[man]echo[/man] takes multiple parameters, and outputs all of them.

If you were using a function like [man]print[/man], however, you would need to concatenate them by using a period instead: print '<table><tr><td>' . date('D M j Y') . '</td></tr></table>';

Hope that helps.

drew010

edit: ya beat me to it cai, either example works.

<?php
function head() {
global $slogan;

echo "<table><tr><td>" . date("D M j Y") . "</td></tr></table>";
}
?>

that would be the proper code. when you are in php tags, all code must be php. html is allowed but it must be within print or echo statements.
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