[SOLVED] Trouble with passing url variable and date();

[aebstract]

I don't know why it is messing up the way it is, but I am entering in my url: month=November, then I am setting

$month = $_GET['month'];

Then echo out $month and it displays November.

Then I try to do:

$date = date('$month 1 Y');

and echo out $date and it gives me: $09o93002

 

Any answers to why this is doing this and how I can insert the month in to that date variable would be great. Thanks

[pocobueno1388]

You need to use double quotes

$date = date("$month 1 Y");

[aebstract]

Okay now I am getting:

 

-0500c30obeThu, 11 Sep 2008 14:25:53 -0500 1 2008 

 

with this:

 

if (isset($_GET['month'])){

$month = $_GET['month'];
$date = date("$month 1 Y");
$weekday = date('w', strtotime($date));
echo $date;

} else {

[BlueSkyIS]

because month names have date() formatting codes in them. what are you trying to do? it looks like you're just trying to append 1 and the current year to a month name. is that all?

[aebstract]

Yeah pretty much the only thing that will change is the month and year, even though I'm not showing year in the example. When I get the month working I will do the year the same way. So when I echo this as

$date = date('F 1 Y');
$weekday = date('w', strtotime($date));
echo $date;

it is September 1 2008, so yeah same thing with whatever Month I decide to put through to it.

[BlueSkyIS]

like this??

 

$_GET['month'] = 'November';
$month = $_GET['month'];
$date = "$month 1 ".date("Y");
echo "date: $date";

 

output:

date: November 1 2008

 

[aebstract]

Yes that fixed this issue, thanks