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PHP PHP Basics PHP on the Web Date Function

Posted by Ab Eds
Ab Eds
8,278 Points

I had the same output for the date

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

?>

outputs the same as what I should return October 24, 2017 ( at the current time of doing the exercise )

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

?>

2 Answers

Jennifer Nordell
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Jennifer Nordell
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Jennifer Nordell
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Jennifer Nordell
Treehouse Teacher

Hi there! While your output may be the same you've included unnecessary things in your arguments to the date function. I believe this challenge is explicitly checking what you're sending in to the date function. You've included a lot of concatenation which isn't necessary.

Take a look:

echo date('F d, Y');

This will produce the exact same output but is much more readable.

Hope this helps! :sparkles:

Matthew Lang
Matthew Lang
13,483 Points
Matthew Lang
Matthew Lang
13,483 Points

You do not need to concatenate the strings within the date() function. Use this:

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

?>```
Ab Eds
Ab Eds
8,278 Points

thanks I understand now, unnecessary concatenation