Conditional tag showing condition before echo 1

[followtheboat]

Hi, newbie here.

I have a condition that displays a call from the database first BEFORE displaying my text, when the code is the other way round. It should say 'You are viewing all excerpts from (date)' when instead it is displaying '(date)You are viewing all excerpts from'.

Any clues?

<?php 	
	if (is_archive())
{
     echo 'You are viewing all excerpts from' . the_time('F Y');
}

	elseif (is_single()) { echo "blog"; } 
?>

 

[jpadie]

you are using wordpress, right?
this is occurring because the_time is an output function rather than a return function. if you look at the code then you will see that it ends with an echo.

so instead

echo "You are viewing all exceprts from ";
the_time('F Y');

 

[followtheboat]

Correct and spot on! Thank you for your prompt response.