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PHP PHP Basics PHP on the Web Date Function

Posted by stef22
stef22
5,354 Points

What is wrong about this?

It tells me that I need to echo the date, but I have...?

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

echo "Today is $date";
?>

1 Answer

Jennifer Nordell
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Jennifer Nordell
Treehouse Teacher
Jennifer Nordell
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Jennifer Nordell
Treehouse Teacher

Hi! There are a couple of things going on here. But you're so close, so I'm just going to give some hints.

  • You are echoing out "Today is" not once, but twice
  • The format for the date has the wrong day format character. It should be d instead of j
  • For some reason, it really wants the echo and the date function to be all on the same line
  • Only one line of code (in addition to what was already there) is needed to pass this challenge.

I think you can get it with these hints, but let me know if you're still stuck! :sparkles: