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PHP Build a Simple PHP Application Creating the Menu and Footer Starting the Project

Posted by Perry Eising
Perry Eising
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date() has been deprecated / error message!

Date has been deprecated in PHP for a while now. If you follow the code in this video on a newer PHP builds (after 5.1.0, and 5.6.8 is now current) you will get an error message.

Jayden Spring
Jayden Spring
8,625 Points
Jayden Spring
Jayden Spring
8,625 Points

As far as I am aware it is only mktime() that has been deprecated as of 5.1.0 - I dont think they would deprecate one of the most core functions.

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thomascawthorn
thomascawthorn
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thomascawthorn
thomascawthorn
22,986 Points

date() has not been officially or (as far as I know) unofficially deprecated in php version 5.

as Jayden Spring suggested, mktime() is an example of a deprecated function. You'll see a note in the php docs if this ever happens. E.g. in mktime():

As of PHP 5.1.0, this parameter became deprecated. As a result, the new timezone handling features should be used instead.

date has no such mention - are you quoting a particular reference, or is this something you've picked up in your code?