[SOLVED] Problem returning vars from function

[Democreous]

My vars will not return from the function :

 

function timecor($time)
{

list($hour, $min, $sec) = explode(":", $time); // splits $time apart into $hour $min $sec

if ($hour > 12) 
	{
	$hour=($hour-12);
	$ampm = "pm";
	}
else ($ampm = "am");

$hour=($hour/1); // get rid of 0

return $hour; 
return $min;
return $sec;
return $ampm;
}

 

When I call it with

 

timecor($e[event_time]); // Call Function where event_time is a var equal to HH:MM:SS

 

Is this because the vars I am returning never existed until I created them in the Function?  Any help would be appreciated.

[Jessica]

You can only return one variable.

Try putting them all into an array, and return that array.

[Democreous]

eh, i replaced all the return $vars; with

 

$timetotoal = ($hour.":".$min." ".$ampm);
return $timetotal; 

 

so it would be one variable as opposed to writing an array... but still nothing.

[kenrbnsn]

When you return a value from a function you need to assign the returned value to a variable. Just calling the function doesn't assign the returned value to anything.

 

<?php
$somevar = timecor($e[event_time]);
?>

 

Also, you shouldn't use parenthesis in this statement:

<?php
$timetotal = ($hour.":".$min." ".$ampm);
return $timetotal;
?>

 

This can be written as

<?php
return ($hour.":".$min." ".$ampm);
?>

 

BTW, what you are attempting to do here can probably be done with a combination of the strtotime() function and the date() function.

 

Ken

[Democreous]

I just set it to echo within the function, that's all I did with it outside the function, so it works now I guess?  I don't understand returning vars but this seams to work for the situation.

 

Thank You,

Brian

[artacus]

Try echoing  your vars inside your function to see if they are correct.

I've never seen this before:

list($hour, $min, $sec) = explode(":", $time)';

...pretty clever if it works.

 

Anyhow, why are you going thru all this trouble in the first place?

try :

date('l:i p',strtotime($time));

[artacus]

Dang it ken. You stole my thunder!

[Democreous]

Well, I guess I'm going through all the trouble because I wasn't aware of that date function heh.  That really helps alot.  Thanks for the "additional" info on functions though you two, that was very helpful.

 

Salute

- Brian