[SOLVED] Esacping text inside date()

[soycharliente]

Fresh pair of eyes? Is there an easier way?

 

This is the line:

<?php
$thedate = date("m\<\b\r \/\>d\<\b\r \/\>y", strtotime($row["post_date"]));
echo "<div class=\"blog-post-date\">{$thedate}</div>";
?>

 

This is output:

<div class="blog-post-date">03<b />12<b />08</div>

 

This is desired:

<div class="blog-post-date">03<br />12<br />08</div>

[lemmin]

This should work:

<?php
$thedate = date("m<b\\r />d<b\\r />y", strtotime($row["post_date"]));
?>

[paul2463]

try this

$thedate = date("m<b\\r />d<b\\r />y", strtotime($row["post_date"]));

[soycharliente]

This should work:

<?php
$thedate = date("m<b\\r />d<b\\r />y", strtotime($row["post_date"]));
?>

 

It does.

 

Why aren't you escaping the entire <br /> tag?

 

And the double slash to escape the escaping of the r to prevent new line?

[paul2463]

the out put is a text string so you dont need to escape out all of the text , just the bits that seem like code which "\r" is so you escape out the first "\" and it prints out the full tag as it should