Help with adding date to an anchor tag

[affordit]

What I am trying to do is add the calendar date clicked on to the link. Can someone tell me whats wrong with this line please.

echo "<td><a href=search2.php?post_date= date('Y-m-$day_num')> $day_num </a></td>";

[soycharliente]

You have a couple of things wrong with your code.

 

1. Don't try to call the date() function inside your string.

2. You're trying to format the date that is outputted by it with incorrect syntax.

 

<?php
$thedate = date('Y-m-d'); // this would say 2008-03-12 if you called it today
echo "<td><a href=search2.php?post_date=$thedate> $day_num </a></td>";
?>

 

I don't exactly know what you're trying to do with $daynum inside date() though. Elaborate?

[affordit]

I added this line just ahead of the anchor

$day = date("Y,m,$day_num");

Now it works thanks

I am using the link to pull the records from the table where the post_date  is set as year month day. Is there an easier way?

[soycharliente]

Oh wow. You need some quotes around your href too!

[soycharliente]

That's going to return the date like this:

2008,03,whatever

 

You changed that from before? Are you trying to grab the current year and month but change the day for all the links?