just an update. someone named felix who is my new hero, was able to look over the snippet i was using, and determine the problem, and fix it.
my snippet had said:
$alias = $ds[$i]['alias'];
$split = explode(".", $alias);
$combined = $split[2];
$combined .= $split[0];
$combined .= $split[1];
$combined .= " 0800";
$formatted = strtotime($combined );
$pubdate = date("r", $formatted);
$filename = 'episodes/'.$ds[$i]['alias'].'.m4a';
if (file_exists($filename)) {
$fileSize = filesize($filename);
}
and he changed it to the much more compact, elegant, and most importantly, functional:
$alias = $ds[$i]['alias'];
$split = explode(".", $alias);
$pubdate = date("r", mktime(8,0,0,$split[0],$split[1],$split[2]));
$filename = 'episodes/'.$ds[$i]['alias'].'.m4a';
if (file_exists($filename)) {
$fileSize = filesize($filename);
}
that solved my problem. since php is all greek to me, i can’t tell if that will be helpful to anyone else or not, but hopefully it will be.
