Posted by Leila Lappin on 05/12/05 22:28

Will this work?

<?php
$string = "Export.".date("mdy").".txt";
echo $string;
?>

-----Original Message-----
From: Clinton, Rochelle A [mailto:raclin3@email.uky.edu]
Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2005 12:55 PM
To: php-general@lists.php.net
Subject: [PHP] beginner needs help!


Dear Much Needed Advisor,



I am definitely a PHP novice and making some code changes to a PHP
script.



I need to change a declared output file to include the date as an
extension.



My file is declared at the beginning of the script as:

var $exportFile = "Export.txt";



I need it to be, for instance, Export.051205.txt.



I have played around with the date function many ways:

Ex 1:

var $exportFile = "Export" . date("mdy");



Ex 2:

$file = "Export";

$ext = date("mdy");

var $exportFile = $file . $ext;



I can't seem to get anything to work.



Also, could you point me to somewhere where I can learn the difference
between declaring variables as:



$exportFile = "Export.txt";

and

var $exportFile = "Export.txt"



Thank you! Thank you!



Rochelle Clinton

Bioinformatics Coordinator

University of Kentucky

200 Thomas Hunt Morgan Building

office: (859) 257-2161

cell: (406) 570-5383

email: raclin3@email.uky.edu

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