Re: beginner needs help!

Clinton, Rochelle A wrote:

Dear Much Needed Advisor, I am definitely a PHP novice and making some code changes to a PHP script. I need to change a declared output file to include the date as an extension. My file is declared at the beginning of the script as: var $exportFile = "Export.txt"; I need it to be, for instance, Export.051205.txt. I have played around with the date function many ways: Ex 1: var $exportFile = "Export" . date("mdy"); Ex 2: $file = "Export"; $ext = date("mdy"); var $exportFile = $file . $ext; I can't seem to get anything to work.

What is not working with it? Did you want the .txt extension on the end? $exportFile = "Export." . date ( "mdy" ) . ".txt";

Also, could you point me to somewhere where I can learn the difference between declaring variables as: $exportFile = "Export.txt"; and var $exportFile = "Export.txt"

I *think* they're the same. Personally, I've never used 'var' in PHP, and all has worked fine. -- John C. Nichel ÜberGeek KegWorks.com 716.856.9675 john@kegworks.com