problem with the date

[ChipRivers]

Hi All, I am new to this forum and new to the whole PHP experience! I have just recently switched from ColdFusion to start learning PHP and MySQL and to aid my script testing I have installed Apache, PHP and MySQL onto my machine in the bundled package of Big Apache.

The problem that I am experiencing at the moment is with the date display. I have used the command:

echo date('l, j F Y', getdate());

Which on my screen is displaying 'Thursday, 1 January 1970'. This clearly is not the current date so what am I missing? The date is set correctly on my machine but do I need to amend something on the Apache server to show the correct time? (I am new to the whole running a server thing to!)

Any help would be appreciated.

[kkobashi]

Try the example in the PHP documentation for getdate() to see if you get the right results:

<?php
$today = getdate();
print_r($today);
?>

Do you see the correct month, day, year, etc?

If so, then your echo date('I, j F Y', getdate()) statement is wrong.

I dont' believe getdate() returns a timestamp... and that may be where your error is.

Use this instead:

echo date('l, j F Y', time());

[ChipRivers]

Thanks Kerry, time() worked perfectly rather than getdate().

[kkobashi]

Excellent.