Re: New Newbie Question

"Ronald "The Newbie" Allen" <sesel@omantel.net.om> wrote in message news:20040515123042.6047.qmail@pb1.pair.com... > Here is my problem: > When I get the value of $date and I echo it it shows up just fine > > $date = date("Y-m-d H:i"); > echo "$date"; > 2004-05-15 16:20 > > but when I go to insert the value into a form like this > > Time:<INPUT type="text" name="Date_and_Time" value=<? echo > "$date"; ?> > size="50"><br> > it only displays > 2004-05-15 > > why is this????????? > Annoying Looks like you are missing the closing > for your value attribute (see below). > > > <html> > > <title> > Master Station Log > </title> > <body text="#000000" link="#0000ff" vlink="#800080" > alink="#ff0000"> > <? > $date = date("Y-m-d H:i"); > echo "$date"; > ?> > > Time:<INPUT type="text" name="Date_and_Time" value=<? echo > "$date"; ?> > size="50"><br> > </body > </html> Don't put quotes around your variables. echo $date; <INPUT type="text" name="Date_and_Time" value=<? echo $date; ?>> size="50"> (Pay attention to ?>>) Regards, Torsten