[DA Master]

When creating a function that will show the date I use the following function...

PHP Code:

<?php

function ShowDate()

{

    date("F j, Y");

}

?>

Then I call the file that this is in via the require_once() function then...

PHP Code:

<?php ShowDate(); ?>

Yet when testing nothing shows in the page. What's wrong?

[daynah]

I think these changes will help.

Function:

PHP Code:

<?php

function ShowDate()

{

    return date("F j, Y");

}

?>

To display,

PHP Code:

<?= ShowDate(); ?>

The reason I used return in the function is because date returns a string, so you want you function to do the same.

The display part, I used <?= ShowDate(); ?> instead of <?php ShowDate(); ?> because the <?= means to display the result (echo).

You can also have it like this:

Function:

PHP Code:

<?php

function ShowDate()

{

    echo date("F j, Y");

}

?>

To display,

PHP Code:

<?php ShowDate(); ?>

Both way works. You just need a way to echo the data somewhere.

[Steven]

Add an echo infront of the date()

<?php

function showdate()
{
echo date("F j, Y");
}

?>

[Steven]

oops.. looks like daynah replied while i am replying too..

[DA Master]

Thanks daynah. All sorted now.