displaying date in 8 different formats?

[xcoderx]

hey how would i display this

echo "Todays date:".date('d-m-Y'); 

in 8 different formats?

[gizmola]

Well you're passing the format string 'd-m-Y' as a constant.  If you instead passed that as a variable, you could allow it to output however you wanted. 

[trq]

You realize that the first argument to date is the format you want? I'd start there.

[salathe]

What are the 'formats' that you want to display the date as?

[xcoderx]

something like this i meant

 

echo "Todays date: ".date('d.m.Y');
echo "<br/>Todays Is date: ".date('dM/D/y');
echo "<br/>Todays date: ".date('F-Dd-Y');

 

display it in 8 different ways, anymore help? i managed 3 different formats and 5 more left

[Axeia]

You may want to look at the documentation which lists all the different 'letters'  that get you different results.

 

Why would you want to do this though, some kind of homework assignment?

[xcoderx]

homework :-)

[Psycho]

something like this i meant

 

echo "Todays date: ".date('d.m.Y');
echo "<br/>Todays Is date: ".date('dM/D/y');
echo "<br/>Todays date: ".date('F-Dd-Y');

 

display it in 8 different ways, anymore help? i managed 3 different formats and 5 more left

 

Did you test out those "formats"? The last two aren't formats that I have ever seen used. You would get something like:

16Feb/Tue/2010 or February-Tue16-2010

 

I *think* your instructor is wanting you to find eight formats that would be legitimately used. Think about how dates are used by people (in different countries) and by machines. Or, be lazy, and do a simple google seach for "date format".

[xcoderx]

you are right but the thing is im not getting any idea, and yeah i get it like this

 

Todays date: 16.02.2010

Todays Is date: 16Feb/Tue/10

Todays date: February-Tue16-2010

[Psycho]

Like I said, do a Google search for "date format". Google is the all knowing entity.