Entering the date as default within a form

[cover]

Anyone know how to enter the time into a form or a website that might
tell how? I'm using the following html code and trying to get the
time to default into the text box. thanks

html code
<tr>
<td><b>Date:</b></td>
<td align="left"><input type="text" name="date" size="8"
maxlength="8"></td>
</tr>

php code
<? print strftime("%m/%d/%Y"); ?>

[Duyet The Vo]

<tr>
<td><b>Date:</b></td>
<td align="left"><input type="text" name="date" size="8"
value="<?php print strftime("%m/%d/%Y"); ?>"
maxlength="8"></td>
</tr>

"cover" <coverland914 @ yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:1113455064.964b98a30938694552c9c831174abe92@t eranews...

Anyone know how to enter the time into a form or a website that might
tell how? I'm using the following html code and trying to get the
time to default into the text box. thanks

html code
<tr>
<td><b>Date:</b></td>
<td align="left"><input type="text" name="date" size="8"
maxlength="8"></td>
</tr>

php code
<? print strftime("%m/%d/%Y"); ?>

[cover]

Inserting that into the html causes <?php print strftime( to be echoed
inside the form field and " maxlength="8"> to show up just outside and
to the right of the form field. Thank you for your reply though - any
other ideas? :-)

Chris
On Thu, 14 Apr 2005 07:35:07 +0200, "Duyet The Vo" <[e-mail]>
wrote:

<tr>
<td><b>Date:</b></td>
<td align="left"><input type="text" name="date" size="8"
value="<?php print strftime("%m/%d/%Y"); ?>"
maxlength="8"></td>
</tr>

"cover" <coverland914 @ yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:1113455064.964b98a30938694552c9c831174abe92@ teranews...

Anyone know how to enter the time into a form or a website that might
tell how? I'm using the following html code and trying to get the
time to default into the text box. thanks

html code
<tr>
<td><b>Date:</b></td>
<td align="left"><input type="text" name="date" size="8"
maxlength="8"></td>
</tr>

php code
<? print strftime("%m/%d/%Y"); ?>

[Good Man]

cover <coverland914 @ yahoo.com> wrote in
news:1113487119.6a09c1cd2c73318276223ef6888b1660@t eranews:

Inserting that into the html causes <?php print strftime( to be echoed
inside the form field and " maxlength="8"> to show up just outside and
to the right of the form field. Thank you for your reply though - any
other ideas? :-)

you already posted this to another group today (alt.php) and came across
the same problem.

if your form field is showing PHP code, guess what, you don't have PHP on
your server.

[Good Man]

cover <coverland914 @ yahoo.com> wrote in
news:1113487119.6a09c1cd2c73318276223ef6888b1660@t eranews:

Inserting that into the html causes <?php print strftime( to be echoed
inside the form field and " maxlength="8"> to show up just outside and
to the right of the form field. Thank you for your reply though - any
other ideas? :-)

orrrr

if you DO have PHP installed on your server, change the extension on your
file from .html to .php

[Ken Robinson]

cover wrote:

Inserting that into the html causes <?php print strftime( to be echoed inside the form field and " maxlength="8"> to show up just outside and to the right of the form field. Thank you for your reply though - any other ideas? :-)

What is the name of the file containing the HTML? If it is xyz.html or
xyz.htm then your webserver doesn't know to send the file through PHP
to be processed, unless you've told it to. Make sure the name of your
file is xyz.php and then try it again.

Ken

[cover]

SUCCESS !!!

Thank you everyone who replied. Appreciate your help and time very
much... :-)