Chapter 6 php and mysql 24-hour trainer

Old Sarge · April 10th, 2012, 08:57 PM

I get the following warning on all my coding using 'strftime':

"Warning: Invalid CRT parameters detected in C:\Users\chuck\Desktop\Documents\php\xampp\htdocs\ php24\employee.php on line 56"

Warning: Invalid CRT parameters detected in C:\Users\chuck\Desktop\Documents\php\xampp\htdocs\ php24\employee.php on line 59

Warning: Invalid CRT parameters detected in C:\Users\chuck\Desktop\Documents\php\xampp\htdocs\ php24\employee.php on line 60

There are five (5) identical Warning msgs for each line.

I created the following code:

Code:

	 <?php
line 56		echo '<p>Original date/time: ' . strftime('%A, %B %e, %Y %I:%M%p %Z') . '</p>';
line 57		echo '<p>New date/time in different formats: </p>';
line 58		echo strftime('%c', $myTime) . '<br />';
line 59		echo strftime('%m/%e/%Y', $myTime) . '<br />';
line 60		echo strftime('%A, %B %e, %Y', $myTime) . '<br />';
line 61		echo strftime('%A %I:%M%p %Z', $myTime) . '<br />';
line 62		echo strftime('%I:%M %p', $myTime) . '<br />';
	?>

I get the Warning listed above on lines 56, 59 and 60. The other lines of coding is processed.

I downloaded the following code from wrox.com:

Code:

	 <?php
line 56		echo '<p>Original date/time: ' . strftime('%A, %B %e, %Y %I:%M%p %Z') . '</p>';
		echo '<p>New date/time in different formats: </p>';
		echo strftime('%c', $myTime) . '<br />';
line 59		echo strftime('%m/%e/%Y', $myTime) . '<br />';
line 60		echo strftime('%A, %B %e, %Y', $myTime) . '<br />';
		echo strftime('%A %I:%M%p %Z', $myTime) . '<br />';
		echo strftime('%I:%M %p', $myTime) . '<br />';
	?>

I have defined $myTime at the top of the coding. It is defined as:

Code:

$myTime = time()+ (60 * 60 * 24 * 7);

The coding is the same for my entries and what I down loaded from WROX. The same lines of coding had the WARNING error.

What is wrong?

Tarrconsulting · April 11th, 2012, 12:12 PM

The problem is that the %e is not supported by Windows. I'm on a Mac and missed it. You can replace it with %#d instead.

%e shows the day without leading zeros 1-31
%d shows the day with leading zeros 01-31
%#d shows the day without the leading zeros 1-31

If you don't care if a leading zero shows, you could just replace the %e with %d

Old Sarge · April 12th, 2012, 06:33 PM

Thanks for the quick reply on my question for lesson06w. Now I have another one:
I'm trying to use the $_GET function (lesson06x). My coding (which is exactly like the downloaded version of lesson06x gets the error:

User Name: Andy

Password 12345

You entered
Notice: Undefined index: username in C:\Users\chuck\Desktop\Documents\php\xampp\htdocs\ php24\employee-first.php on line 84
as the User Name and
Notice: Undefined index: password in C:\Users\chuck\Desktop\Documents\php\xampp\htdocs\ php24\employee-first.php on line 84
as the Password.

I copied the downloaded version of lesson06x from WROX and ran it:

Code:

	<form action="lesson06x.php" method="get">
<label for="username">User Name:</label><br />
<input type="text" id="username" name="username" /><br />
<label for="password">Password</label><br />
<input type="text" name="password" /><br />
<button type="submit">Submit</button>
</form>
<p>You entered <?php echo $_GET["username"] ?> as the User Name and <?php echo $_GET["password"] ?> as the Password.</p>

I get the same errors. Can you tell me what's wrong?

Tarrconsulting · April 12th, 2012, 08:19 PM

The Notice error is happening because the first time you open the file the form hasn't been submitted so there are no GET's defined yet. To get rid of these errors when we need to check first that the GET's are defined. We can do that with the isset() function.

Replace the <p></p> line with this:

Code:

<?php if (isset($_GET["username"]) AND isset($_GET["password"])) : ?>
	<p>You entered <?php echo $_GET["username"] ?> as the User Name and <?php echo $_GET["password"] ?> as the Password.</p>
<?php else: ?>
	<p>Please enter your User Name and Password.</p>
<?php endif; ?>

This was just an example and you'll find as you go on we start adding in more robust features.