functions??

[nikko50]

Hello. How can I echo a value from a function in the midst of a print statement. Below is my function and the print statement.

//FORMAT DATE USER VIEW
Function viewDate($viewDate) {
If ($viewDate) {
$fields = str_replace('-','',explode("-", $viewDate));
$strYear = $fields[0];
$strMonth = $fields[1];
$strDay = $fields[2];
$viewDate = "$strMonth-$strDay-$strYear";
return $viewDate;
}

print "<table class='sql' >";
print "<tr>
<td width=13%>$line[ponum]</td>
<td width=35%>$line[vendor]</td>
<td width=12%> echo viewDate($line[duedate])</td>

[nikko50]

I placed the function in a variable like...
$date= viewDate($line[duedate]);
before the print statement. I thought maybe there was another way I can do it inside the print statement

[chads2k2]

Hey I am just cleaning up your code a bit. I just think you copy and pasted it wrong. How you had it would have given you an error if my memory serves me right. Which we all know how that is at times! :-D

Ok so try this one out for size and see if that gives you what you want.

<?php
//FORMAT DATE USER VIEW 
Function viewDate($viewDate) { 
If ($viewDate) { 
$fields = str_replace('-','',explode("-", $viewDate)); 
$strYear = $fields[0]; 
$strMonth = $fields[1]; 
$strDay = $fields[2]; 
$viewDate = "$strMonth-$strDay-$strYear"; 
return $viewDate; 
} 


print "<table class='sql' >"; 
print "<tr>";
print "<td width=13\%>$line[ponum]</td>";
print "<td width=35\%>$line[vendor]</td>";
print "<td width=12\%>";
$returned_value = viewDate($line[duedate]);
echo "$returned_value";
print "</td>";
?>

Take it easy,

Chad

[chads2k2]

Well the problem with the placing it inside of the print statement is that if my personal experience ever taught me anything is that PHP has problems calling functions within print(), echo(), sprint, and fprint. So I always assign it to a variable and use right away. Kind of like a "temporary" variable of the answer.

Not a good explination, and spelling to add to it. But hope you get the idea. Thanks

Chad

[nikko50]

Hi Chad. Yes your code works fine. Thanks for the detailed explanation as that was very helpful. Talk to you later.
Tracy

[laserlight]

PHP is fine with calling functions from echo or print, but you need to separate the function call from the string literal.

e.g.

print "<tr>
<td width=13%>$line[ponum]</td>
<td width=35%>$line[vendor]</td>
<td width=12%>" . viewDate($line['duedate']) . "</td>";