formatting date() and nbsp;

[JS]

What I have is a date that I'd like to format to keep it together on
one line using non-breaking spaces.

I started with:
date ("l F&nbsp ;j, Y", $unixtime);

and soon realized that the letters n and s are reserved characters for
the date command, so I did this:

$mydate =date ("l&\nb\sp;F&\n b\sp;j,&\nb\sp; Y", $unixtime);

The &, b, and p don't need to be escaped since they aren't listed as
being special characters for the date command. But no go. All it was
insert a new line in the middle to replace the \n and a space for the
\s. But as far as I can tell the space it inserts for the \s isn't
and html non-breaking space.

Then I tried:

$mydate =date ("l"."  " . "F" . " ". "j," . " " . "Y",
$unixtime);

But the function does all of the string concatenation before it
substitutes the characters for the time information, so that doesn't
work either.

I know I can go through and use:

$mydate str_replace(" ", " ", $mydate);

but I thought there might be a better way. Surely there's some way to
tell date() that I want the character n, not the numeric
representation of the month and not a new line character.

Any ideas?

Thanks

[boclair]

Re: formatting date() and nbsp;


"JS" <jd142@hotmail. com> wrote in message
news:b072334c.0 308061701.2d306 7aa@posting.goo gle.com...[color=blue]
> What I have is a date that I'd like to format to keep it together on
> one line using non-breaking spaces.
>
> I started with:
> date ("l&nbsp;F&nbsp ;j,&nbsp;Y", $unixtime);
>[/color]
This is not applicable?

$mydate =date ("l F j, Y", $unixtime);

<nobr>$mydate </nobr>

Louise

[JS]

Re: formatting date() and nbsp;

David Mackenzie <dcm@tarbrax.fr eeserve.co.uk> wrote:[color=blue]
> From the manual ( http://uk2.php.net/date ):
> <quote>
> You can prevent a recognized character in the format string from being
> expanded by escaping it with a preceding backslash. If the character
> with a backslash is already a special sequence, you may need to also
> escape the backslash.
> </quote>
>
> So
> $mydate =date ("l&\\nb\\sp;F& \\nb\\sp;j,&\\n b\\sp;Y", $unixtime);
>
> should do it (untested!)[/color]

Thanks. I read the manual page three times and just kept missing it.
Damn these eyes. Too late. ;)

Thanks

[Andy Hassall]

Re: formatting date() and nbsp;

On Thu, 07 Aug 2003 10:07:09 GMT, "boclair" <boclair@bigpon d.net.au> wrote:
[color=blue]
>This is not applicable?
>
><nobr>$mydat e</nobr>[/color]

<nobr> is not an HTML element.

http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/index/elements.html

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[matty]

Re: formatting date() and nbsp;

Andy Hassall wrote:
[color=blue]
> On Thu, 07 Aug 2003 10:07:09 GMT, "boclair" <boclair@bigpon d.net.au>
> wrote:
>[color=green]
>>This is not applicable?
>>
>><nobr>$mydate </nobr>[/color]
>
> <nobr> is not an HTML element.
>
> http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/index/elements.html[/color]

If you want &nbsp; instead of space, the other solution
is to use str_replace on your formatted string