Re: back ticks

dima, Back ticks are used to execute external commands, eg the following line will print out what OS you are using: echo "OS = ".uname."<BR>"; Your example would probably work if you remove the backticks altogether as they are unnecessary, although you may need to put the $month+1 term in brackets. HTH, - Kev dima wrote: > Hi everyone, > > for some particular reason back ticks fail to to evaluate the expression > in the following: > > $month = 7; > $year = 2000; > > echo date ("t", mktime (0,0,0,$month + 1,0,$year)); > > and I can't get why. > > help much appreciated. > > thanks. > > d. > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net