Adding the start date to the subject area

[franhaselden]

I've managed to add the start date to the subject area so it now reads Started by Member on "Date" in Board

However, for some reason my date gets output in quotes. My code is the following:

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<p>
    ', $txt['started_by'], ' <strong>', $topic['first_post']['member']['link'], '</strong>
    on ' . json_encode(date('jS M Y', $topic['first_post']['timestamp'])) . '
    ', $txt['in'], ' <em>', $topic['board']['link'], '</em>
</p>

The output reads, for example:

Started by Fran on "6th Oct 2018" in The Cafe

Where are the quotes coming from?

[Shambles]

Why do you use json_encode?


date('jS M Y', $topic['first_post']['timestamp'])  should return you a string value

[franhaselden]

Thanks, that was it. I was outputting the data in a console.log previously thus needing the json_encode but didn't need it once I started echoing this out,

Thanks!