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Jennifer Klakulak
1,004 PointsI think I am stuck somehow on the SINGLE date function. What I currently have was my original thought, but nope
I originally put my current code in and it worked on the preview. But when I check work, it tells me that it is not correct. I have tried every form of what I believe to be the SINGLE date function. I read through the documentation. I tried timestamp. I am stuck.
<?php
echo 'Today is';
//Place your code below this comment
echo " " . date ('F d, Y');
?>
2 Answers
jonathanbarrios
Treehouse Teacher👋 Hi Jennifer,
The problem here is the whitespace in between the date function and the parenthesis. Just remove the white space and this should work:
<?php
echo 'Today is';
//Place your code below this comment
echo " " . date('F d, Y');
?>
This can be confusing because the documentation looks like it has whitespace in the description:
date ( string $format [, int $timestamp = time() ] ) : string
But if you scroll down and look at the examples, they do not have whitespace.
<?php
// Prints something like: Monday
echo date("l");
// Prints something like: Monday 8th of August 2005 03:12:46 PM
echo date('l jS \of F Y h:i:s A');
// Prints: July 1, 2000 is on a Saturday
echo "July 1, 2000 is on a " . date("l", mktime(0, 0, 0, 7, 1, 2000));
/* use the constants in the format parameter */
// prints something like: Wed, 25 Sep 2013 15:28:57 -0700
echo date(DATE_RFC2822);
// prints something like: 2000-07-01T00:00:00+00:00
echo date(DATE_ATOM, mktime(0, 0, 0, 7, 1, 2000));
?>
I hope this helps and happy coding! 🙌
Jennifer Klakulak
1,004 PointsIt was the white space between date and parenthesis and the double quotes in front of date. I had to take out everything between the first quotes and the d on date. Then it worked. It looked like it was working before, the quiz just wanted it cleaned up. Thank you.