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Ioan Ionkov
Courses Plus Student 6,921 PointsIssues with echo command on a task
I have the task "Use the date function to add todays date to the display message in the following format: full month, day of the month with leading 0, comma and 4 digit year. Example: Today is July 04, 2016"
upon writing my code:
<?php
echo 'Today is ' . "$date" ;
//Place your code below this comment
$date = date("F d, Y");
?>
It displays properly and works, but when submitting the task, I get the error " Bummer! Looks like you forgot the echo command Restart " and this happens regardless if I alter the echo to be bellow the declared variable $date or not. Please advice further
Moderator edited: markdown was added to the question to properly render the code. Please see the Markdown Cheatsheet link at the bottom of the "Add an Answer" section for tips on how to post code to the Community.
2 Answers
Jennifer Nordell
Treehouse TeacherHi again, loan! When it says add your code below this comment, it means that you are not to alter the line of code before that. It's important in these challenges to try not to do anything the challenge doesn't explicitly ask for. Even if functional, it can cause the challenge to fail.
The challenge did not ask for a new variable to be created. All it's looking for here is an additional echo statement. Remember the \n (new line) character we covered in your previous question? It's missing here. This means that even though it's a new echo statement it will come immediately after the preceding one and not on a separate line.
Here is the line it's looking for:
echo date("F d, Y");
Hope this helps!
Ioan Ionkov
Courses Plus Student 6,921 PointsUnderstood. But this also occurs if I use this code:
<?php echo 'Today is '; //Place your code below this comment
$date = date("F d, Y"); echo "$date" ?>
And it is displaying as instructed "Today is January 05, 2017" As for the \n should I use it here as well? Because I am not sure that there it should be implemented here?
Ioan Ionkov
Courses Plus Student 6,921 PointsThank you for the answer I understood and it all went well!
Jennifer Nordell
Treehouse TeacherNo, you don't need the new line. However, you are still doing something that the challenge hasn't asked for. You are implementing a new variable and echoing out the value. But what I believe the challenge is testing is the formatting string inside the date function. But now it can't find it because you've assigned it to a variable. Also, your code is missing a semicolon at the end.
The end code should look like this:
<?php
echo 'Today is ' ;
//Place your code below this comment
echo date("F d, Y");
?>
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