HELP PHP "PRINT" DATE QUESTION

[chevys]

I have a question regarding a Print Fuction I have posted the code below.

 

print("<tr>"); 

                print("<td height=\"20\"class=\"row1\"align=\"left\">$PAYP[0]</td>");

  print("<td height=\"20\"class=\"row1\"align=\"left\">$user[1]</td>");

print("<td height=\"20\"class=\"row1\"align=\"left\">$credits</td>");

print("<td height=\"20\"class=\"row1\"align=\"left\">$PAYP[2]</td>");

  print("</tr>");

 

The line that consist of $PAYP[0] returns the date when the user made a purchase but it is in this format - 1239333028 - I need it to display in the format for example 4/11/09 can anyone help?

 

Thanks

 

 

[.josh]

date

[chevys]

I tried several different combination i am new to all this PHP coding can you be alittle more specific please  Thx

[.josh]

I think the manual is a lot more specific than I could ever be...did you scroll down and look at the examples?

[Mchl]

What did you try? If you show us we can tell you where you went wrong.

[chevys]

Dont laugh lol

 

I tried date($PAYP[0])

 

I tried <?=date('F j, Y', $PAYP[0])?>

 

I just cant figure it out I scrolled down that page you suggested and I cannot figure out which one will compare to what I am tring to do.

 

Thanks

[Mchl]

Did this show anything or nothing or an error?

<?=date('F j, Y', $PAYP[0])?>

[chevys]

It came back as nothing when I tried that one.  Am I missing a line above print telling it what to do?

[Mchl]

Ok, look at this line

 

print("<td height=\"20\"class=\"row1\"align=\"left\">$PAYP[0]</td>");

as you probably know it prints the content of $PAYP[0] which is a timestamp

 

if you want to print a formatted date instead, you need to convert this timestamp first

 

for example:

 

$dateFormatted = date("Y/m/d",$PAYP[0]);
print("<td height=\"20\"class=\"row1\"align=\"left\">$dateFormatted</td>");

 

or you can do this in one step

 

print("<td height=\"20\"class=\"row1\"align=\"left\">".date("Y/m/d",$PAYP[0])."</td>");

notice, that I had to use . before and after date(). This dot tells PHP to join (the proper term is concatenate ... I still need a spellchecker for this) the strings on both side of it.

[chevys]

That worked thank you so much I have been trying this for the past 5hrs

[Mchl]

I would suggest that you have some fun with formatting the date, to see what are the different options available. It'll come in handy not once and not twice