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)); Sorry, my Xorg crashed. A word of wisdom: don't try the new Compiz-Fusion on KDE with dual-headed setups yet. Let the bugs get worked out first (or risk having a conspicuous hole in the wall the size of your forehead like I will in a few days). To your issue: * What are you passing to parameter #1 of fMakeWideDate() (then dubbed $thisdate)? * Mktime() should be mktime(). It'll still work, but for cleanliness, it's a recommendation. When I run the function like so, it works without fail: <?php echo fMakeWideDate(date("m/d/Y"),1)."\n"; echo fMakeWideDate(date("m-d-Y"),1)."\n"; echo fMakeWideDate(date("Y/m/d"),2)."\n"; echo fMakeWideDate(date("Y.m.d"),2)."\n"; ?> Are you correctly passing the date? What do you see when you echo out the MySQL rows? -- </Daniel P. Brown> Ask me about: Dedicated servers starting @ $59.99/mo., VPS starting @ $19.99/mo., and shared hosting starting @ $2.50/mo. Unmanaged, managed, and fully-managed!