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Reputation: 43

Outputting PHP to HTML date value issue

When I output a date in PHP to a text box as the value, if there is a space when I set it the element gets all messed up.

Code is PHP:

$date= date("d-m-Y h:i:s",strtotime($data['Date']));
$type="input"; 
$idname="test";
$idx="1";

 echo  "<".$type." id='".$idname."_". $idx. "' value=".$date." ></input>";

the produced HTML looks like 

input id="test_1" value="01-01-1970" 01:00:00=""

If I use

 $date= date("d-m-Y|h:i:s",strtotime($data['Date']));

Setting the value will work fine. What is going on here? Why is a quote being added when I ouput the $date causing a new parameter to be added to the element?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 69

Answers (1)

adeneo
adeneo

Reputation: 318222

You're missing the single quotes around the value, so the space in the date is read as a seperator for a new attribute when the browser tries to fix your mistake.

echo  "<".$type." id='".$idname."_". $idx. "' value='".$date."' />";
//                                                  ^         ^

Upvotes: 1

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