So everything works fine as far as functionality but I want to change the date format to display something like "Thu., Apr 25th, 2013 4: 28 PM". I can get every page to show up with this format execpt for the blog_read.php file. I don't know why this is because I've used the same code. Here are my files. Please help! Thanks in advance!
blog_list.php
<?php
include('core/init.inc.php');
?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//WC3//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3/org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Blog</title>
</head>
<body>
<div>
<?php
$posts = get_posts();
foreach ($posts as $post){
?>
<h2><a href="blog_read.php?pid=<?php echo $post['id']; ?>"><?php echo $post['title']; ?></a></h2>
<h4>By <?php echo $post['user']; ?> on <?php echo $post['date']; ?></h4>
<h4>(<?php echo $post['total_comments']; ?> comments, last comment <?php echo $post['last_comment']; ?>)</h4>
<hr />
<p><?php echo $post['preview']; ?></p>
<?php
}
?>
</div>
</body>
</html>
blog_post.php
<?php
include('core/init.inc.php');
if (isset($_POST['user'], $_POST['title'], $_POST['body'])) {
add_post($_POST['user'], $_POST['title'], $_POST['body']);
header('Location: blog_list.php');
die();
}
?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
</head>
<form action="" method="post">
<p>
<label for="user">Name</label>
<input type="text" name="user" id="user" />
</p>
<p>
<label for="title">Title</label>
<input type="text" name="title" id="title" />
</p>
<p>
<textarea name="body" rows="20" cols="60"></textarea>
</p>
<p>
<input type="submit" value="Add Post!" />
</p>
</form>
<br class="clearfix" />
</div>
<div id="sidebar">
<?php include 'includes/sidebar.php' ?>
</div>
<br class="clearfix" />
</div>
<?php include 'includes/bottom_content.php' ?>
</div>
<?php include 'includes/footer.php' ?>
</body>
</html>
blog_read.php
<?php
include('core/init.inc.php');
if (isset($_GET['pid'], $_POST['user'], $_POST['body'])) {
if (add_comment($_GET['pid'], $_POST['user'], $_POST['body'])){
header("Location: blog_read.php?pid={$_GET['pid']}");
}else{
header('Location: blog_list.php');
}
die();
}
?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//WC3//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3/org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Blog</title>
</head>
<body>
<div>
<?php
if (isset($_GET['pid']) === false || valid_pid($_GET['pid']) === false) {
echo 'Invalid post ID.';
}else{
$post = get_post($_GET['pid']);
?>
<h2><?php echo $post['title']; ?></h2>
<h4>By <?php echo $post['user']; ?> on <?php echo $post['date']; ?> (<?php echo count($post['comments']); ?> comments)</h4>
<hr />
<p><?php echo $post['body']; ?></p>
<hr />
<?php
foreach ($post['comments'] as $comment){
?>
<p><?php echo $comment['body']; ?></p>
<h4>By <?php echo $comment['user']; ?> on <?php echo $comment['date']; ?></h4>
<hr />
<?php
}
?>
<form action="" method="post">
<p>
<label for="user">Name</label>
<input type="text" name="user" id="user" />
</p>
<p>
<textarea name="body" rows="20" col="60"></textarea>
</p>
<p>
<input type="submit" value="Add Comment!" />
</p>
</form>
<?php
}
?>
</div>
</body>
</html>
init.inc.php
<?php
mysql_connect('127.0.0.1', 'root', '');
mysql_select_db('blog');
include('inc/posts.inc.php');
include('inc/comments.inc.php');
?>
posts.inc.php
<?php
//checks if the given post id is in the table
function valid_pid($pid) {
$pid = (int)$pid;
$total = mysql_query("SELECT COUNT(`post_id`) FROM `posts` WHERE `post_id` = {$pid}");
$total = mysql_result($total, 0);
if ($total != 1) {
return false;
}else{
return true;
}
}
//gets a summary of all blog posts
function get_posts() {
$sql = "SELECT
`posts`.`post_id` AS `id`,
`posts`.`post_title` AS `title`,
LEFT(`posts`.`post_body`, 512) AS `preview`,
`posts`.`post_user` AS `user`,
DATE_FORMAT(`posts`.`post_date`, '%a., %b %D, %Y %l: %i %p') AS `date`,
`comments`.`total_comments`,
DATE_FORMAT(`comments`.`last_comment`, '%a., %b %D, %Y %l: %i %p') AS `last_comment`
FROM `posts`
LEFT JOIN(
SELECT
`post_id`,
COUNT(`comment_id`) AS `total_comments`,
MAX(`comment_date`) AS `last_comment`
FROM `comments`
GROUP BY `post_id`
) AS `comments`
ON `posts`.`post_id` = `comments`.`post_id`
ORDER BY `posts`.`post_date` DESC";
$posts = mysql_query($sql);
$rows = array();
while (($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($posts)) !== false) {
$rows[] = array(
'id' => $row['id'],
'title' => $row['title'],
'preview' => $row['preview'],
'user' => $row['user'],
'date' => $row['date'],
'total_comments' => ($row['total_comments'] === null) ? 0 : $row['total_comments'],
'last_comment' => ($row['last_comment'] === null) ? 'none' : $row['last_comment']
);
}
return $rows;
}
//gets a single post from the table
function get_post($pid) {
$pid = (int)$pid;
$sql = "SELECT
`post_title` AS `title`,
`post_body` AS `body`,
`post_user` AS `user`,
`post_date` AS `date`
FROM `posts`
WHERE `post_id` = {$pid}";
$post = mysql_query($sql);
$post = mysql_fetch_assoc($post);
$post['comments'] = get_comments($pid);
return $post;
}
//adds a new blog entry
function add_post($name, $title, $body) {
$name = mysql_real_escape_string(htmlentities($name));
$title = mysql_real_escape_string(htmlentities($title));
$body = mysql_real_escape_string(nl2br(htmlentities($body)));
mysql_query("INSERT INTO `posts` (`post_user`, `post_title`, `post_body`, `post_date`) VALUES ('{$name}', '{$title}', '{$body}', NOW())");
}
?>
comments.inc.php
<?php
//gets all of the comments for a given blog post
function get_comments($pid){
$pid = (int)$pid;
$sql = "SELECT
`comment_body` AS `body`,
`comment_user` AS `user`,
DATE_FORMAT(`comment_date`, '%a., %b %D, %Y %l: %i %p') AS `date`
FROM `comments`
WHERE `post_id` = {$pid}";
$comments = mysql_query($sql);
$return = array();
while(($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($comments)) !== false) {
$return[] = $row;
}
return $return;
}
//adds a comment
function add_comment($pid, $user, $body) {
if (valid_pid($pid) === false) {
return false;
}
$pid = (int)$pid;
$user = mysql_real_escape_string(htmlentities($user));
$body = mysql_real_escape_string(nl2br(htmlentities($body)));
mysql_query("INSERT INTO `comments` (`post_id`, `comment_user`, `comment_body`, `comment_date`) VALUES ({$pid}, '{$user}', '{$body}', NOW())");
return true;
}
?>
Again, Thanks for any help!