nevermind: just noticed you guys found the error over lunch.
feel like one of my programming students! Thanks for the help.
On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 1:11 PM, Paul Peacock
<ppeac...@lexington.k12.il.us>wrote:
> these variables are used pulling an rss feed from a google calendar:
> // $right_now=date("Y-m-d")."T00:00:00-05.00";
> $right_now="2010-10-08T00:00:00-05:00";
> // $end_time=date("Y-m-d")."T23:59:59-05.00";
> $end_time="2010-10-08T23:59:59-05:00";
>
> $feed = "
> http://www.google.com/calendar/feeds/lexington.k12.il.us_6etvr95vct7ktb9r22dm59ga2s%40group.calendar.google.com/";
> .
> "public/full?orderby=starttime&singleevents=true&" .
> "sortorder=ascending&" .
> "start-min=" . $right_now . "&" .
> "start-max=" . $end_time;
>
> The hard coded ones work, the ones that pull today's date do not.
>
> On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 9:08 AM, Joseph Simshauser <
> sims...@stclair.k12.il.us> wrote:
>
>> Could you be a bit more specific? Those two statements seem to be doing
>> exactly what they're suppose to do as far as I can tell.
>>
>> Breaking down your first statement:
>> $right_now=date("Y-m-d")."T00:00:00-05.00"
>>
>> - The date("Y-m-d") gets the 4 digit year the 2 digit month (with leading
>> zero) and 2 digit day (with leading zero) and "-" characters in between
>> them. (In today's case: 2010-10-08)
>> - The "." (dot operator) concatenates the "T00:00:00-05:00" statement to
>> that date which was just retrieved.
>> - Then it's all stored as a string in the variable "$right_now"
>>
>> As for the second statement, it just appears to be the same content as the
>> first statement, but hard coded. What exactly are you trying to do? If you
>> are looking to add time to the date the "date" function does have some time
>> features.
>>
>> http://us.php.net/manual/en/function.date.php
>>
>> Joseph simshausersims...@stclair.k12.il.us
>> Technology Department
>> Cahokia Unit School District 187http://cusd187.stclair.k12.il.us/techweb/
>>
>> "History is much like an Endless Waltz. The three beats of War, Peace, and
>> Revolution continue on forever."
>>
>>
>> On 10/8/2010 6:59 AM, Paul Peacock wrote:
>>
>> can someone tell me why these 2 statemtents are not interchangeable?
>>
>> $right_now=date("Y-m-d")."T00:00:00-05.00";
>> $right_now="2010-10-08T00:00:00-05:00";
>> The second one works, but the first one doesn't. They both seem to echo
>> the same string.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Paul Peacock
>> Lexington High School
>>
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