Display "n" in a date fucntion

[amites]

I have a simple question for anyone that knows it,

 

how I can I display an "n" in a date function

 

for example I have

 

return date("ga \o\n  l\, jS \o\f F Y ", $date_val);

 

that returns:

 

Tuesday, 30th o November 1999, between 12:00 am - 1:00 am

 

with o followed by a new line rather than the word on,

 

any ideas?

[trq]

You can't simply write words within the date functions format string, what exactly are you expecting to happen?

[p2grace]

You could write two date functions and concatenate them with the word "on" in between the two.

[tibberous]

You need to use \\n.

 

It has to do with the fact that \ is used to treat letters as literals in the date function, but \n is already converted to a new line character in PHP. So, when you do \\n, you are sending the function \n, which is a literal n.

[Barand]

or put the format string inside single quotes

 

<?php
echo date ('ga \o\n jS \o\f F');     // 7am on 2nd of February
?>