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From: Vix on 19 Jun 2008 04:17
Thank you!

Gary White wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Jun 2008 16:19:57 +0100, Vix <user(a)example.net> wrote:
>
>> function gen_username() {
>> $username = substr($row_rsDeceasedList['LastName'],0,3);
>> $username .= date('dmY', strtotime($row_rsDeceasedList['DateOfDeath']));
>> return $username;
>> }
>>
>> <input name="Username" type="text" id="Username" size="32" value="<?php
>> echo $u = gen_username(); ?>" />
>>
>> My problem is that only the date part is being written in the form
>> field. Why isn't isn't my function extracting the the first 3
>> characters of the LastName field in the database?
>
> You aren't getting the expected result because the
> $row_rsDeceasedList['DateOfDeath'] is out of scope inside the
> function. Try it this way:
>
> function gen_username($n) {
> $username = substr($n,0,3);
> $username .= date('dmY',
> strtotime($row_rsDeceasedList['DateOfDeath']));
> return $username;
> }
>
> And:
>
> <input name="Username" type="text" id="Username" size="32"
> value="<?php echo gen_username($row_rsDeceasedList['DateOfDeath']);
> ?>" />
>
> Gary
From: Gary White on 19 Jun 2008 08:49
On Thu, 19 Jun 2008 09:17:22 +0100, Vix <user(a)example.net> wrote:

>Thank you!

You're welcome.

Gary
From: yupieyi on 19 Jun 2008 09:11
My php skills are pretty limited.. thanks for helping me learn a little bit more!
From: DizzDizzy on 19 Jun 2008 09:20
can anyone tell me how to about that i am still not sure about the answers ?
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