Convert date value to string and merge it with another string

Hi,

I have been breaking my head to solve this. May be this is very simple.

I am trying to convert date value to string and to merge with another string.

$dt=$_POST['formdate']; //$dt is in format of Y-m-d
$msg = "The date entered is ".$dt;

echo $msg;

Code (markup):

But it is printing $dt as blank. Please help me.

Thanks in advance.

Kiran

 

What does print_r($_POST) give you?

 

Thanks for responding. It prints normally as date format

Array ( [formdate] => 2010-08-24 ...)


//$dt is in format of Y-m-d (also edited in first post)

Kiran

 

This shouldn't happen. Either $_POST['formdate'] isn't passed correctly (check spelling of variable names) or you are changing it someplace (probably used an assignment state = instead of a checker ==).

 

Yes!! You are right ThePHPMaster. It's my mistake on using different variable. The problem arose as I use two forms on the same page. A quick check on the script resolved the issue.

Thanks much

Kiran

 

This seems absolutely fine to me ... you don't need to convert numeric variables in PHP to a string in this case ... when you merge it, this is automatically done. Maybe the name of the cell "formdate" is not correct??

 

Look above.. the problem has been outlined and solved already.