Showing Date In Email Subject

[tomyknoker]

Shouldn't it be as simple as this to display the date in my email subject? When I run this it just display exactly what's written, ignores the code...

PHP Code:

$message = <<<HERE
The following people are members as of echo date('d-m-Y');.
The login information is as follows:
-----------------------------------------

$login
HERE;


$from = "Email <me@mydomain.com>";

mail($to, $subject, $message, 'From: '.$from);
}

?> 


[djr33]

erm...
$subject = date(...);
??


As for the above, that's the body, not subject, and you're using the <<<...; method for setting a string, so it won't parse anything.

There's limited parsing with the {$var} construct, but I think that's limited to variables.

You could set
$date = date(...);
Then use {$date} in the <<<EOF thing,
or you could just split the string and output (echo) date() directly, by itself, not as part of the EOF.

[boogyman]

You need to fix your mail function... highlighted at red

mail($to, $subject, $message,header('From: '.$from));

[djr33]

Hmm... I don't think that's the original question.
And, The headers in the mail function aren't used with the header() function, I don't believe. header(), from how I have seen it used, outputs directly, before any html in the php script, to the browser, informing it as to the type of output (like html, or javascript, or jpeg).
I might be wrong here, though, since I haven't gone too deep in the use of headers within the mail() function.
I do know, though, that just a string with the right format will work for that.

[mburt]

It's a specific order of strings for the headers on the mail function, followed by \r\n after each one.

From php.net:

$headers = 'From: webmaster@example.com' . "\r\n" .
    'Reply-To: webmaster@example.com' . "\r\n" .
    'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();

But again, that wasn't the question. The OP's original question (about date(); ) was already answered.

[realmetrics.com]

Use getdate() function to get the current date.

 

<?php
$message = “The following people are members as of echo date('d-m-Y');. 
The login information is as follows: 
-----------------------------------------“;
$subject = getdate();
$from = "Email <me@mydomain.com>"; 
mail($to, $subject, $message, 'From: '.$from); 
} 
?>

getdate() function returns an array that contains date and time information for a Unix timestamp.

I think this answers your question.