iamtom Posted February 16, 2010 Share Posted February 16, 2010 Hello, Hope I am in the right forum.. I need to process to report a date., I am a roadside picnic guy, just put stuff together by example.... I have a flatfile database with a date field format of YYYY-MM-DD I run perl to list the records in a 'template' html page In this case, I use a java script to define the report look example: <html> <template> <script> var name = "[[DeadLine]]" if (name == "[[TODAY]]") { document.write("<td><!a href='http://www.XXXXXX.com/cgi-bin/ClassSignUp01.pl?CODE=[ ]&StartDate=[[startDate]]'>[[Title]]</a></td>") } else { document.write("<td><!a href='http://www.XXXXXX.com/cgi-bin/ClassSignUp0.pl?CODE=[[code]]&StartDate=[[startDate]]'>[[Title]]</a></td>") } </script> </template> </html> **<!a href=disabled**** [[TODAY]] needs to be the actual date of today so that classes past the DeadLine are shown diffferntly than classes that are still short of the DeadLine. So I need to be able to have today's date show in YYYY-MM-DD format at [[TODAY]] The mix of perl, html, java, and now a php process is nore than I can figure out. Thanks for the help !! Tom Any direction will be appreciated. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/192277-php-date-help/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwolgamott Posted February 16, 2010 Share Posted February 16, 2010 Not sure why you'd mix perl and php... considering the similarities. Besides the point anyways <?php $Today = date("Y-m-d"); ?> // that is case sensitive by the way a lower case 'y' instead of 'Y' will get you two digit instead of four. * d - The day of the month (from 01 to 31) * D - A textual representation of a day (three letters) * j - The day of the month without leading zeros (1 to 31) * l (lowercase 'L') - A full textual representation of a day * N - The ISO-8601 numeric representation of a day (1 for Monday through 7 for Sunday) * S - The English ordinal suffix for the day of the month (2 characters st, nd, rd or th. Works well with j) * w - A numeric representation of the day (0 for Sunday through 6 for Saturday) * z - The day of the year (from 0 through 365) * W - The ISO-8601 week number of year (weeks starting on Monday) * F - A full textual representation of a month (January through December) * m - A numeric representation of a month (from 01 to 12) * M - A short textual representation of a month (three letters) * n - A numeric representation of a month, without leading zeros (1 to 12) * t - The number of days in the given month * L - Whether it's a leap year (1 if it is a leap year, 0 otherwise) * o - The ISO-8601 year number * Y - A four digit representation of a year * y - A two digit representation of a year * a - Lowercase am or pm * A - Uppercase AM or PM * B - Swatch Internet time (000 to 999) * g - 12-hour format of an hour (1 to 12) * G - 24-hour format of an hour (0 to 23) * h - 12-hour format of an hour (01 to 12) * H - 24-hour format of an hour (00 to 23) * i - Minutes with leading zeros (00 to 59) * s - Seconds, with leading zeros (00 to 59) * e - The timezone identifier (Examples: UTC, Atlantic/Azores) * I (capital i) - Whether the date is in daylights savings time (1 if Daylight Savings Time, 0 otherwise) * O - Difference to Greenwich time (GMT) in hours (Example: +0100) * T - Timezone setting of the PHP machine (Examples: EST, MDT) * Z - Timezone offset in seconds. The offset west of UTC is negative, and the offset east of UTC is positive (-43200 to 43200) * c - The ISO-8601 date (e.g. 2004-02-12T15:19:21+00:00) * r - The RFC 2822 formatted date (e.g. Thu, 21 Dec 2000 16:01:07 +0200) * U - The seconds since the Unix Epoch (January 1 1970 00:00:00 GMT) Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/192277-php-date-help/#findComment-1013278 Share on other sites More sharing options...
iamtom Posted February 16, 2010 Author Share Posted February 16, 2010 Tried that... doesn't work inside script [[TODAY]] = 2010-02-14 (changed page to xxx.php) not html <template> <script> var name = "[[TODAY]] if (name <= "<?php $Today = date('Y-m-d'); echo $Today; ?>") { document.write("<td xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>") } else { document.write("<td zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz>") } </script> </template> php does not supply the date when ran, is there a simpler way to do this? Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/192277-php-date-help/#findComment-1013413 Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwolgamott Posted February 17, 2010 Share Posted February 17, 2010 php does not supply the date when ran, is there a simpler way to do this? Youre not going to see the result since what you are doing is printing that to the other language. So your javascript should be something like this. I don't know enough of the js syntax to know if that's correct. <script> var name = "[[TODAY]] if (name <= "2010-02-17") { document.write("<td xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>") But to be sure your php is working right save the below in a file named test.php <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <html> <body> <?php echo "HELLO! "; $Today = date('Y-m-d'); echo $Today; ?> </body> </html> That should print "HELLO! 2010-02-17" when ran. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/192277-php-date-help/#findComment-1013673 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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