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PHP PHP Basics PHP on the Web Date Function

Caleb Brewton
Caleb Brewton
7,218 Points
Posted by Caleb Brewton
Caleb Brewton
7,218 Points

Could someone help me out with this problem?

The problem is as follows: As a developer, you'll spend a lot of time in the documentation. For this code challenge, you'll need to check out the documentation for the date function to see details about formatting.

Use a SINGLE date function to display today's date in the message. Use the following format: full month, day of the month with leading 0, comma and 4 digit year.

Example: Today is July 04, 2016.

As far as I can tell, my code output is correct, but it isn't accepting it, so I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong.

Can somebody point me in the right direction?

index.php 
<?php
echo 'Today is ';
//Place your code below this comment
echo date('F' . ' ' . 'd' . ',' . ' ' . 'Y');
?>

2 Answers

jamesjones21
jamesjones21
9,260 Points
jamesjones21
jamesjones21
9,260 Points

with the date function, there is no need to perform concatenation: it accepts a string which it will pick up the letters accordingly

<?php
echo 'Today is ';
//Place your code below this comment
echo date("F d, Y");
?>
jamesjones21
jamesjones21
9,260 Points
jamesjones21
jamesjones21
9,260 Points

No problem the documentation is a good way to get some information :) or always check out the forum to see if the answer exists, more or less does :)

happy coding