strtotime() error

[hyello]

I'm not good with php and currently getting this error on my search page

Warning: strtotime() [function.strtotime]: Called with an empty time parameter. in /home/ezcampus/public_html/includes/list_control.php on line 286

The line of code is as such
if ((mktime() > strtotime($item[$fields_Array[$i]])) && ($list_title == "Items I'm Watching" || $list_title == "Search Results") && $fields_array[$i] == "end_date") {

Could someone please tell me what I need to change here to fix this error.

Thanks
Brett

[ClarkF1]

There's something strange going on with this:

$item[$fields_Array[$i]]

That's not how you'd call a multi-dimensional array.

It's normally of the format:

$item[$fields_Array][$i]

[Weedpacket]

Unless $fields_Array[$i] contains the name of an element in the $item[] array (which - and this can only be a guess based on what's been given - is the idea: presumably it's called "$fields_Array" because it's an array).

Assuming that, if strtotime() is being called with an empty parameter, and the only parameter is $item[$fields_Array[$i]], then logically $item[$fields_Array[$i]] is empty. And why that should be only the original poster is in a position to say.

(Incidentally, time() would be more straightforward than mktime().)