Comparing Dates

Hangin' Around Joined: May 31, 2006 Posts: 49

Hi,

I'm trying to compare a couple of dates in PHP using the following.
$sm is the selected month
$sd is the selected day
and $sy is the selected year.

I have tried
$actual = strtotime(date('d-m-Y')); as well.

Code:




$selected = strtotime(date('d-m-Y',mktime(0,0,0,$sm,$sd,$sy)));


$actual = strtotime(date('d-m-Y'),mktime(0,0,0,date('m'),date('d'),date('Y')));

Now todays date is 31/05/2007
if I select the date as 01/06/2007 it still tells me the date is smaller then the
30/05/2007 but this is not the case obviously.

If however I selected the 31/07/2007 it says the date is greater. Now it seems to me that is it going wrong somewhere when comparing the first part of the date i.e(the day).

Can anyone see what/where this is going wrong and how to fix it?

Many Thanks

Posted: Thu May 31, 2007 5:05 am

Nevermind I sorted it by making the date go y-m-d and also i think i might have put a brace in somewhere i shouldnt have.

The code now looks like this

Code:




$selected = strtotime(date('Y-m-d',mktime(0,0,0,$sm,$sd,$sy)));


$actual = strtotime(date('Y-m-d'));

registered · Posted: Thu May 31, 2007 8:00 am

You are jumping through some extra hoops for $selected. This should work as well:

Code:




$selected = mktime(0, 0, 0, $sm, $sd, $sy);


$actual = strtotime(date('Y-m-d'));