When creating a function that will show the date I use the following function...

<?php
function ShowDate()
{
date("F j, Y");
}
?>

Then I call the file that this is in via the require_once() function then...

<?php ShowDate(); ?>

Yet when testing nothing shows in the page. What's wrong?

I think these changes will help. :)

Function:
<?php
function ShowDate()
{
return date("F j, Y");
}
?>

To display,
<?= ShowDate(); ?>


The reason I used return in the function is because date returns a string, so you want you function to do the same.

The display part, I used <?= ShowDate(); ?> instead of <?php ShowDate(); ?> because the <?= means to display the result (echo).

You can also have it like this:

Function:
<?php
function ShowDate()
{
echo date("F j, Y");
}
?>

To display,
<?php ShowDate(); ?>

Both way works. :) You just need a way to echo the data somewhere.

Add an echo infront of the date()

<?php

function showdate()
{
echo date("F j, Y");
}

?>

oops.. looks like daynah replied while i am replying too.. :P

Thanks daynah. All sorted now.