Re: Freshness date
I don’t think there should be any trouble with quotes in this case. See examples on this page, partic. #4 http://php.net/manual/en/function.date.php
Are you still getting the ‘unexpected T_STRING’ message? Are you certain line 66 is your date(…) line?
If Ray’s suggestion / similar thread doesn’t help, it would be a good idea to post a few more lines of your code, so we can see the snippet in context.