Hi all.

I'm getting this error on my page. I'm completely new to php.

Notice: Undefined variable: theStamp in c:\Inetpub\wwwroot\neath_music\news.php on line 42
1st January 1970

Here is some of the code for the page where 'thestamp' is if this helps.

<?php require_once('Connections/con_neath_music.php'); ?>
<?php
$colname_rs_news = "-1";
if (isset($_GET['news_id'])) {
  $colname_rs_news = (get_magic_quotes_gpc()) ? $_GET['news_id'] : addslashes($_GET['news_id']);
}
mysql_select_db($database_con_neath_music, $con_neath_music);
$query_rs_news = sprintf("SELECT * FROM news WHERE news_id = %s ORDER BY news_date DESC", $colname_rs_news);
$rs_news = mysql_query($query_rs_news, $con_neath_music) or die(mysql_error());
$row_rs_news = mysql_fetch_assoc($rs_news);
$totalRows_rs_news = mysql_num_rows($rs_news);

$maxRows_rs_newslist = 8;
$pageNum_rs_newslist = 0;
if (isset($_GET['pageNum_rs_newslist'])) {
  $pageNum_rs_newslist = $_GET['pageNum_rs_newslist'];
}
$startRow_rs_newslist = $pageNum_rs_newslist * $maxRows_rs_newslist;

mysql_select_db($database_con_neath_music, $con_neath_music);
$query_rs_newslist = "SELECT * FROM news ORDER BY news_date DESC";
$query_limit_rs_newslist = sprintf("%s LIMIT %d, %d", $query_rs_newslist, $startRow_rs_newslist, $maxRows_rs_newslist);
$rs_newslist = mysql_query($query_limit_rs_newslist, $con_neath_music) or die(mysql_error());
$row_rs_newslist = mysql_fetch_assoc($rs_newslist);

if (isset($_GET['totalRows_rs_newslist'])) {
  $totalRows_rs_newslist = $_GET['totalRows_rs_newslist'];
} else {
  $all_rs_newslist = mysql_query($query_rs_newslist);
  $totalRows_rs_newslist = mysql_num_rows($all_rs_newslist);
}
$totalPages_rs_newslist = ceil($totalRows_rs_newslist/$maxRows_rs_newslist)-1;

function makeStamp($theString) {
  if (ereg("([0-9]{4})-([0-9]{2})-([0-9]{2}) ([0-9]{2}):([0-9]{2}):([0-9]{2})", $theString, $strReg)) {
    $theStamp = mktime($strReg[4],$strReg[5],$strReg[6],$strReg[2],$strReg[3],$strReg[1]);
  } else if (ereg("([0-9]{4})-([0-9]{2})-([0-9]{2})", $theString, $strReg)) {
    $theStamp = mktime(0,0,0,$strReg[2],$strReg[3],$strReg[1]);
  } else if (ereg("([0-9]{2}):([0-9]{2}):([0-9]{2})", $theString, $strReg)) {
    $theStamp = mktime($strReg[1],$strReg[2],$strReg[3],0,0,0);
  }
  return $theStamp;
}

function makeDateTime($theString, $theFormat) {
  $theDate=date($theFormat, makeStamp($theString));
  return $theDate;
}
?>

woah, you are new to php and managed to code all of this?

thats not an error. it is a notice, but you can get rid of it. I think it is referring to the "return $theStamp" line.

you can change that to

if(isset($theStamp)){
    return $theStamp;
}
else
    return null;



----------------
Never bother to learn something not knowing which does not do you any harm, and never neglect to learn something whose negligence will increase your ignorance - Imam Jafar Sadeq

A couple things:

Not all paths return a value in your function makeStamp,
Consider adding an additional else conditional, example: if{}else if{}else if{}else{}
or consider setting $theStamp to a default value.

A "Notice" doesn't mean anything serious, instead it's giving you something to consider.

A couple links for further referrence:
    Exception Handling Levels: http://www.phpfreaks.com/forums/inde...showtopic=2139
    Notice: Undefined variable: http://forum.mamboserver.com/showthread.php?t=12133


- A.Kahtava

Thanks guys, but all I want to do really is sort the news items according to the date...with the newest news item becoming the default page when the user click 'Latest News'. If you take a look at http://www.neathmusic.co.uk/news.php you will see that it defaults to 'Trace Elliot Dealership'. I've tried going through the filters for the recordset in Dreamweaver but nothing works...or I get the error notice above.

I'm using two recordsets on the page and a 'Horizontal Looper' for the menu.

BTW, I didn't code the page, it's Dreamweaver 8. I couldn't even hope to do any of that.

Thanks

Antony :0)