date() function error

cavey

why is this: $time = date("g:iA");
giving me so much trouble?

When i run that code, I get a blank white screen. If I pull the colon out it works,
but it should work with it in there, right? It works on my other pages of code...

entire code snippet:

<?php
session_start();
if (!isset($_SESSION['username'])) {
    header("Location: login.php");
	exit;
    }

// Makes initial conection to database
define ('DB_USER', '*****');
define ('DB_PASSWORD', '*****');
define ('DB_HOST', 'localhost');
define ('DB_NAME', '*****');

$connect = @mysql_connect(DB_HOST, DB_USER, DB_PASSWORD)
  	or die('215 Our database is currently down for updates, please check back later.'); 
 // or die(mysql_error());

$db = @mysql_select_db(DB_NAME, $connect)
	or die('216 Our database is currently down for updates, please check back later.'); 

$subid = mysql_real_escape_string($_POST['subid']);
$addnote = mysql_real_escape_string($_POST['addnote']);
$emplID = ($username);
$date = date("m/d/y");
$time = date("g:iA");
$id4pass = mysql_real_escape_string($_POST['subid']);


$addnote="INSERT INTO subscriber_notes (subsID, emplID, date, time, sessid, note) VALUES ('$subid', '$emplID', '$date', '$time', '$PHPSESSID', '$addnote')";

 $addnote_result= mysql_query($addnote) 
   OR die('QUERY ERROR:<br />' .$addnote. '<br />' .mysql_error());  

// Gets auto-increment subscriber id
//$id = mysql_insert_id($subid);


// Routes to subscriber detail page
header("Location: ../subscriberdetail.php?id=$id4pass");

exit;
?>

NogDog

The format strings need to be quoted:

$date = date('m/d/y');
$time = date('g:iA');

cavey

The PHP manual shows double quotes:

$today = date("F j, Y, g:i a");

NogDog

Either type of quote will work, it just needs to be quoted.

PS: Did you add them in to your code sample when you edited the original post, or was I just hallucinating when I thought I saw them with no quotes at all (neither single nor double)?