[Jack]

Hi,

Firstly sorry this is late, I've been flat out for the last 2 days. But here it is (for those that have been waiting).

I'm mainly focusing on making sure you understand dates and formatting.... so thats what I've based it on. I have only got 5 questions this week + a small task to help us get towards the larger project.

1) Place the following 3 values into variables. Find the average value and format it like: $123,456.78
$190000
$6000
$17000

2) Find the timestamp for 13/2/09 at 13:45:14.

3) Find GMT time (using time and date functions (php website)), for 2pm on saturday 14'th February 2009 (this saturday).

4) Find the first character position of "gcat" in the following string:

"""
gatacaccatgatgagctgattacagatagacaggcatcgatgatgctagtgctgaatcgcggctcgatataatagtcgt
a
"""

5) If I have 5 chickens, each worth $4 each in a pair, but only $3 when sold seperately, figure out ( using PHP's math functions) how much I will ean if I sell the maximumn number of "pairs of chickens". Then format that as "$123.00"

6) This is a more "practical" thing to work on. On most forums, and websites in general you will often see when somethign was posted - a very practical use of timestamp formating. I want you to come up with the date string ( to format the timestamp into a human readable string), in order to duplicate the formatting of times on this site: eg, the forum posting time for Lesson 2 was: "Feb 10 2009, 12:07 AM". GDLK! Hint: If you cant seem to get upper case or lower case, you may have to go back to your string formatting functions .


Thats all for now, but as always you can reply here or email me for help etc.

[Sam Granger]

Thanks for posting this weeks lesson & assignment!