Problem with my news script

Janjan

Hi guys,

I'm making a simple newsscript (my first one ever)
and It's working fine, but the date (hrs and seconds)
are not displayed, instead, I receive the follow message:

Title [

Notice: A non well formed numeric value encountered in C:\Users\Me\Desktop\UsbWebserver\UsbWebserver\Root\ch16\functions.php on line 6

12 Mar 2010]

And so, I checked my code, but it is similiar to what my book tells me,
but it still does not work.

functions.php:

<?php

function formatDate($val)
{
$arr = explode('-', $val);
return date('d M Y', mktime(0,0,0, $arr[1], $arr[2], $arr[0]));
}
?>

Thank you guys.

cretaceous

what format are you submitting the date in to the function?

for your function it should be like this: 2010-05-28
year-month-day

or you could do:
function formatDate($val)
{
return date('d M Y', strtotime($val));
}

Janjan

Thank you, this solution works fine.
Now my posts are shown with the date (ex: 12 mar 2010 posted by admin)
The warning is no longer there.

But I don't understand your question:

what format are you submitting the date in to the function?

what does this mean? (I'm a complete beginner)

Thank you,

greets

cretaceous

in the script the date starts out as something - so I was asking what it starts as.
(Or what is the pattern of $val ?)

if you do
echo $val ;
you will probably see it as 2010-05-28
so if you put the date in to the function like that, it will work...
but if you put it in as 28-05-2010 it will not be recognised as a date by the function

.. also if you want hours and seconds..
then maybe $val already includes hours and seconds
- that is why I wanted to know the format

echo date('h:i',strtotime($val));
will show the time

Janjan

I tried the hours and seconds, works fine,
but it is displayed (for ex. at 24 hours) as 12.00,
so i added a 'A', now it displays in this case 12.00 PM.

But is there a possibility to display it as 24.00?

Thank you,

Janjan

Hi,

i responded a little to fast, I've find a solution.
You are right, I just changed my code to: echo ($val)
and this displays the houres, minutes and seconds as it should be.

But anyway, thank you for your help!