Re: getting a string result from Date

Hi Demian On Thu, 01 Apr 2004 17:24:29 +0100, Demian Turner wrote: > However I have come across one hitch which I've solved but don't > understand the solution. Does any understand why the first method > of assigning the results of a date span operation to a string works > and not the (commented) second? > > $currDate = $date->format('%Y-%m-%d'); > #$currDate = "{$date->year}-{$date->month}-{$date->day}"; the second one works, but you don't have the date returned in the ISO-8601 format because the numbers are not 0-padded. For instance, you get "2004-4-1" instead of "2004-04-01". You should do something like $currDate = sprintf("%04d-%02d%02d", $date->year, $date->month, $date->day); but of course $currDate = $date->format('%Y-%m-%d'); is much shorter and clearer :-) HTH Lorenzo