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PHP PHP Basics PHP on the Web Date Function

Daniel Bell
Daniel Bell
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Posted by Daniel Bell
Daniel Bell
3,914 Points

My code displays the correct answer, but it still says incorrect - why?

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

1 Answer

Jennifer Nordell
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Jennifer Nordell
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Jennifer Nordell
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Jennifer Nordell
Treehouse Teacher

Hi there! This is a bit of a peculiar case in that the checker is checking for the string you're passing into the date function. You've passed in a string that results in the correct output, but the backslash is not needed to escape the comma. It has no effect on the output whatsoever. So while the output is correct, the string passed into the date function is not what was expected.

Removing the backslash should cause this to pass the challenge. Hope this helps! :sparkles: