Change format using variable 1

[keepingbusy]

Hi

Part of my code has a line containing a variable which is a date:

echo "<td ><strong>Date posted:</strong></td><td>".$listing['[b]PostDate[/b]']."</td>";

PostDate is a date stored in a format like yyyy-mm-dd

I have found this:

$dt = date_create_from_format 'd/m/Y', "02/03/2008" );
echo $dt->format( 'd/m/Y' ), "\n";

which I understand will change the date format to dd-mm-yyyy

This is ok if you use the date "02/03/2008"

What I want to use is the variable PostDate instead of "02/03/2008"

I have tried different combinations to make the variable date PostDate show but I keep getting errors.

Please can anyone assist?

Thank you

 

[jpadie]

echo date ("d-m-Y', strtotime($listing['PostDate']));

 

[keepingbusy]

Hi jpadie

Very quick response, thank you

However, the following appeared:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_ENCAPSED_AND_WHITESPACE, expecting T_STRING or T_VARIABLE or T_NUM_STRING in /homepages/XX/XXXXXXXXXX/XXXXXX/XXXXXXXX/memberindex.php on line 85

I notice also, that part of the original code is not part of the code you posted.

My code:

echo "<td ><strong>Date posted:</strong></td><td>".$listing['PostDate']."</td>";

Your code:

echo date ("d-m-Y', strtotime($listing['PostDate']));

Any suggestions?

Thank you

 

[jpadie]

i mismatched the quotes on the first argument.
and i assumed that you could do the formatting ok.

echo "<td><strong>Date posted</strong</td><td>".date ('d-m-Y', strtotime($listing['PostDate'])) . "</td>";

 

[keepingbusy]

jpadie

You are a hero!

Thank you for your help

 

[robbiesmith79]

echo "Just so you know you don't have to " . $saysomething['inphp'] . " and continue with a sentence. You can {$sayanother['thing']} and keep on truckin.

 

[keepingbusy]

Hello robbiesmith79

Thank you for the post

 

[jpadie]

robbiesmith79

you do not need the curly braces either in this case. you can include an array element within a double quoted string thus:

echo "I am an $array[element]"; //note the absence of quotes around the element key