Entering the date as default within a form

[cover]

Anyone know how to enter the time into a form or a website that might
tell how? I'm using the following html code and trying to get the
time to default into the text box. thanks

html code
<tr>
<td><b>Date:</b></td>
<td align="left"><i nput type="text" name="date" size="8"
maxlength="8"></td>
</tr>

php code
<? print strftime("%m/%d/%Y"); ?>

[Duyet The Vo]

Re: Entering the date as default within a form

<tr>
<td><b>Date:</b></td>
<td align="left"><i nput type="text" name="date" size="8"
value="<?php print strftime("%m/%d/%Y"); ?>"
maxlength="8"></td>
</tr>



"cover" <coverland914 @ yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:1113455064 .964b98a3093869 4552c9c831174ab e92@teranews...[color=blue]
> Anyone know how to enter the time into a form or a website that might
> tell how? I'm using the following html code and trying to get the
> time to default into the text box. thanks
>
> html code
> <tr>
> <td><b>Date:</b></td>
> <td align="left"><i nput type="text" name="date" size="8"
> maxlength="8"></td>
> </tr>
>
> php code
> <? print strftime("%m/%d/%Y"); ?>[/color]

[cover]

Re: Entering the date as default within a form

Inserting that into the html causes <?php print strftime( to be echoed
inside the form field and " maxlength="8"> to show up just outside and
to the right of the form field. Thank you for your reply though - any
other ideas? :-)

Chris


On Thu, 14 Apr 2005 07:35:07 +0200, "Duyet The Vo" <me@nospam.ne t>
wrote:
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><tr>
> <td><b>Date:</b></td>
> <td align="left"><i nput type="text" name="date" size="8"
> value="<?php print strftime("%m/%d/%Y"); ?>"
> maxlength="8"></td>
></tr>
>
>
>
>"cover" <coverland914 @ yahoo.com> wrote in message
>news:111345506 4.964b98a309386 94552c9c831174a be92@teranews.. .[color=green]
>> Anyone know how to enter the time into a form or a website that might
>> tell how? I'm using the following html code and trying to get the
>> time to default into the text box. thanks
>>
>> html code
>> <tr>
>> <td><b>Date:</b></td>
>> <td align="left"><i nput type="text" name="date" size="8"
>> maxlength="8"></td>
>> </tr>
>>
>> php code
>> <? print strftime("%m/%d/%Y"); ?>[/color]
>[/color]

[Good Man]

Re: Entering the date as default within a form

cover <coverland914 @ yahoo.com> wrote in
news:1113487119 .6a09c1cd2c7331 8276223ef6888b1 660@teranews:
[color=blue]
> Inserting that into the html causes <?php print strftime( to be echoed
> inside the form field and " maxlength="8"> to show up just outside and
> to the right of the form field. Thank you for your reply though - any
> other ideas? :-)[/color]


you already posted this to another group today (alt.php) and came across
the same problem.

if your form field is showing PHP code, guess what, you don't have PHP on
your server.

[Good Man]

Re: Entering the date as default within a form

cover <coverland914 @ yahoo.com> wrote in
news:1113487119 .6a09c1cd2c7331 8276223ef6888b1 660@teranews:
[color=blue]
> Inserting that into the html causes <?php print strftime( to be echoed
> inside the form field and " maxlength="8"> to show up just outside and
> to the right of the form field. Thank you for your reply though - any
> other ideas? :-)[/color]


orrrr

if you DO have PHP installed on your server, change the extension on your
file from .html to .php

[Ken Robinson]

Re: Entering the date as default within a form


cover wrote:[color=blue]
> Inserting that into the html causes <?php print strftime( to be[/color]
echoed[color=blue]
> inside the form field and " maxlength="8"> to show up just outside[/color]
and[color=blue]
> to the right of the form field. Thank you for your reply though -[/color]
any[color=blue]
> other ideas? :-)[/color]

What is the name of the file containing the HTML? If it is xyz.html or
xyz.htm then your webserver doesn't know to send the file through PHP
to be processed, unless you've told it to. Make sure the name of your
file is xyz.php and then try it again.

Ken

[cover]

Re: Entering the date as default within a form

SUCCESS !!!

Thank you everyone who replied. Appreciate your help and time very
much... :-)