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Re: comparing dates? [message #175487 is a reply to message #175485]

Sun, 02 October 2011 13:43

houghi
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Michael Joel wrote:
> Is there a better way to compare dates than breaking a date into day,
> month, year and comparing each part?
> I need to know if a date (say 10/03/2011) is before another date in
> the same format. Direct comparison doesn't work.

strtotime, but mind the layout of your date. For me the above would be
tenth of march, for others it may be october 3rd.

<?php
echo strtotime("10/03/2011"), "\n";
?>

That should be easy enough to make comparisons
http://php.net/manual/en/function.strtotime.php

houghi
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		comparing dates? By: Michael Joel on Sun, 02 October 2011 13:00
		Re: comparing dates? By: houghi on Sun, 02 October 2011 13:43
		Re: comparing dates? By: Jerry Stuckle on Sun, 02 October 2011 13:58
		Re: comparing dates? By: Doug Miller on Sun, 02 October 2011 16:36
		Re: comparing dates? By: gordonb.wr5h4 on Mon, 03 October 2011 04:54
		Re: comparing dates? By: Doug Miller on Mon, 03 October 2011 15:50
		Re: comparing dates? By: Jerry Stuckle on Mon, 03 October 2011 18:59
		Re: comparing dates? By: bobmct on Tue, 04 October 2011 00:31
		Re: comparing dates? By: Michael Joel on Tue, 04 October 2011 13:27
		Re: comparing dates? By: The Natural Philosoph on Tue, 04 October 2011 14:43
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