Re: getting funny error on working page

On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 5:24 PM, John A DAVIS <John.A.Davis@state.or.us> wrote: > > > Thanks! My guess is the production server has this set correctly and I will > follow your advice. > However, how would one do away with this error? What would I do to guarantee > an string being returned instead of a date? What can I wrap the date() > function in? > > $month=substr($thisdate,0,2); > $day =substr($thisdate,3,2); > $year = substr($thisdate,6,4); > > $d =date("M d (D)",Mktime(0,0,0,$month,$day,$year)); > > > Again, thank you! > John A. Davis I don't think you need to wrap date() in anything, as it should be returning a string. Without seeing the actual input that caused the warning, I think it's probably more an issue with either $month, $day, or $year not being quite right (but close enough that PHP can still obtain the correct result). Is it possible (since you're getting the date from a database query) that the value is coming back as a datetime string that includes a time portion? Your function should work OK if you are getting something that looks like '10-02-2008 10:15:27' but will get the error you reported if it gets the same value as '10022008 10:15:27'. Try doing a var_dump on each value to make sure it's what you expect it to be. Andrew