PHP show date snippet

Hi all,

This is a complete newbie question..

I would like to show the date at the top of my website.

The day, month and year are all in different colours so I have tried setting up 3 basic snippets and calling them inside my styled span tags.

here is the basic snippet code for the day



month



year



I thought you could put basic php code as a snippet and just call it by [[day]] [[month]] [[year]] but it is throwing out

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ’}’ in F:\Windows Server\xampp\htdocs\wdn-new\core\cache\elements\modsnippet\3.include.cache.php on line 8

(the snippets are named day, month, year)

Also when I save the snippet, modx removes the php end tag..

Does anyone have any ideas? Have I got this completely wrong?

Kindest regards

Danny

Sorry, after reading it back I realised that I forgot to state that it is revo.

Thanks

That should work well but don’t forget to put ;



PHP doesn’t require the closing tag (it is assumed when the file ends). Not specifying the closing ?> helps prevent accidents like additional whitespace which will cause session initialization to fail ("headers already sent").

You could also combine it into 1 snippet



Then use in your page with whatever separator you like.

BTW open the file you want to put the snippet in, then switch to the elements tab and just drag and drop the snippet into your page

Or to push it a bit further:



Then use this snippet:



What’s left is to setup a style for your colorclasses in your stylesheet.



...etc

Or if you’d rather set the colors directly:


and use this

Ahhh, I did not put the trailing ;

Thanks for your reply,

Danny

One thing about the closing tag, of course this is only in cases where there is only php code.
When php code is mixed with html for example the closing tag needs to be used.