Date format for $mrecordhighgustday?

[William Grimsley]

Hi Ken,

I currently have this code in my ajax-dashboard.php file but I'm confused on how to change the day number in the date from 1 to 01 e.g. 1 Feb to 01/02?

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<?php if(isset($mrecordwindgust)) { ?>
              <tr>
                <td colspan="2" class="data1" align="center">
				  <?php langtrans('Month'); ?>: <?php echo $mrecordwindgust. " $uomWind"; ?> 
                  <?php if(isset($mrecordhighgustday)) { ?>
				  <?php echo date("d/m"); ?>
                  <?php } // $mrecordhighgustday ?>
				</td>
              </tr>
              <?php } // $mrecordwindgust ?>

As you can see I have put <?php echo date("d/m"); ?> for the day/month field but my question is, is that code showing the current date in that date format or is it showing the record date in that date format?

Sorry to bother you again,

William

[saratogaWX]

Will,
These are the kind of questions you can answer for yourself by just looking at where the data comes from and how it arrives at the variable in question.

Cumulus PHP data arrives via CUtags.php and is converted to $variables by CU-defs.php

Looking at http://www.newton-poppleford-weather.co ... p?sce=view shows

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$mrecordwindgust = $WX['MonthGustH'];
list($mrecordhighgustday,$mrecordhighgustmonth,$mrecordhighgustyear)=CU_getRecordDate($WX['MonthGustHD'],$WX['year']); // calculated value

So there are three variables already made containing the day, month, year values for display.

Your code of

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<?php if(isset($mrecordhighgustday)) { ?>
              <?php echo date("d/m"); ?>
                  <?php } // $mrecordhighgustday ?>

will only display the current day/month .. not the data you desire.

I suggest

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<?php if(isset($mrecordhighgustday)) { ?>
              <?php echo "$mrecordhighgustday/$mrecordhighgustmonth"; ?>
                  <?php } // $mrecordhighgustday ?>

which should display the data you seek.

[William Grimsley]

Hi Ken,

Yes, I looked in the CU-defs.php...

Well, the Month: gust shows 1/2 not 01/02...

William

[saratogaWX]

That seems overly fussy to me (complaining about the lack of leading zeroes).

If it really annoys you, try using

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<?php echo $mrecordhighgustday . '/' .$mrecordhighgustmonth; ?>

and see if that uses the native values in the variables instead of just processing their values as numbers in the " " display.

[William Grimsley]

Hi Ken,

No, that didn't work.

Sorry, I'm not trying to be fussy or annoy you.

Ok, but how come the date in the ajax-dashboard.php is like this: 01/02/2012...

William

[saratogaWX]

So the variables contain numbers, not strings. Force it to print as you like with

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<?php printf('%02d/%02d',$mrecordhighgustday ,$mrecordhighgustmonth); ?>

[William Grimsley]

Hi Ken,

Thanks very much, that worked! I was nearly on it last night but it was getting so late I just couldn't figure it out.

So putting

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%02d

into some PHP code will put a 0 in front of the number? Interesting...I WILL use that code IF a similar problem pops up again!

Thanks again,

William

[saratogaWX]

Not quite correct .. the %02d is a format specifier for use with the builtin functions of printf() and sprintf() .. it is not used elsewhere.

See: http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.sprintf.php and http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.printf.php

The format code documentation is included in the sprintf() doc.

The printf() function does the format and prints the result, sprintf() does the format and returns the resulting string.

[William Grimsley]

Not quite correct .. the %02d is a format specifier for use with the builtin functions of printf() and sprintf() .. it is not used elsewhere.

See: http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.sprintf.php and http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.printf.php

The format code documentation is included in the sprintf() doc.

The printf() function does the format and prints the result, sprintf() does the format and returns the resulting string.

Hi Ken,

Oh, right! So does the %02d code do something else?

Thanks for the links! I will take a look at them soon!

Thanks

William

[saratogaWX]

the %02d is a format specifier for use with the builtin functions of printf() and sprintf() .. it is not used elsewhere.

Hi Ken,

Oh, right! So does the %02d code do something else?

Will, (no reply is necessary)

You should know that your response 'So does the %02d code do something else?' just indicates that you did not read and understand what I said. Please avoid quick replies that have no meaning other than to indicate you didn't comprehend.

[William Grimsley]

Oh, sorry. I won't do that again.