Re: beginner needs help!

On 5/12/05, Clinton, Rochelle A <raclin3@email.uky.edu> 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"; Is this a class? If not you don't need to declare you're variables with var. > 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"); Use a unix timestamp... var $exportFile = 'export' . time(); > Ex 2: > > $file = "Export"; > > $ext = date("mdy"); > > var $exportFile = $file . $ext; > > I can't seem to get anything to work. > > 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" > > Thank you! Thank you! > > Rochelle Clinton > > Bioinformatics Coordinator > > University of Kentucky > > 200 Thomas Hunt Morgan Building > > office: (859) 257-2161 > > cell: (406) 570-5383 > > email: raclin3@email.uky.edu > > -- jamwil.com