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Ham
Ham

Reputation: 814

php date convert to javascript date

I have a php date and wish to echo it out in a javascript alert box:-

$day=15;
$month=8;
$year=2012;

$date_display = date("Y-m-d", mktime(0, 0, 0, $month, $day, $year));
echo $date_display; // 2012-08-15

Then,

<a href="#" onclick="give_date(<?=$date_display;?>)"><?=$day;?></a>

The javascript function:

<script>
function give_date(value){
alert (value);  
}
</script>

Interestingly, the alert box give me "1989", which equals to 2012 minus 8 minus 15!! what shall I do!!

Upvotes: 3

Views: 774

Answers (3)

uınbɐɥs
uınbɐɥs

Reputation: 7341

You are making the client-side code show an alert with the date of the server when the page was loaded.

If you want to show the user the current time, use this:

HTML:

<a href="#" id="date">Please enable JavaScript.</a>

JavaScript:

<script type="text/javascript">
function show_date() {
    alert(new Date());  
}
window.onload = function() {
    document.getElementById('date').innerHTML = new Date().getDay();
};
document.getElementById('date').onclick = show_date;
</script>

Upvotes: 1

Danil Speransky
Danil Speransky

Reputation: 30453

Now you get: <a href="#" onclick="give_date(2012-08-15)">15</a>, so it calculates it in browser.

the solution is simple - add quotes:

<a href="#" onclick="give_date('<?=$date_display;?>')"><?=$day;?></a>

Then you get: <a href="#" onclick="give_date('2012-08-15')">15</a>

Upvotes: 3

asprin
asprin

Reputation: 9823

You can use jQuery if you are up for it

<a href="#" id="<?php echo $date_display; ?>">Click to get date popup</a>

$(function(){

 $('a').click(function(){

       var dt = $(this).attr('id');
       alert(dt);
 });

});

Upvotes: 0

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