The way you want to do this is with UNIX timestamps. FYI a timestamp is the
number of seconds starting at 1970 and going up (it's important to remember
that date - since some people were born before, etc.)
So you need to do this:
$dateA = '12-25-1999';
$dateB = '12-24-1999';
// convert to unix time stamps
$fooA = explode('-',$dateA);
$fooB = explode('-',$dateB);
$timestampA = mktime(0,0,0,$fooA[0],$fooA[1],$fooA[0]);
$timestampB = mktime(0,0,0,$fooB[0],$fooB[1],$fooB[0]);
if($timestampA > $timestampB)
{
echo $dateA . " is greater than B";
}
Hope this helps - you can also check out this page:
http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.datetime.php
--Joe
On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 12:00:05PM -0600, Jacky@lilst wrote:
> Greeting all,
> Just now I asked about to tie string values together and would like to thank
> Jason for that. Anyway one more thing, after I have tied string values
> together and assigned that to a virables. can I used the value from that
> variables to compare with another date value? Say another date value I will
> use is also retrieved from a field in table which is in Date data type as
> well. So it will be like
>
>
> $query = "select myBirthdate from date where userId='1' ";
> $dateResult =mysql_query($query);
> $myBirthDate = (mysql_result($dateResult,0,"myBirthdate"));
>
> $thisBirthdate = "$year"."$month"."$day";
>
> if ($thisBirthdate < $myBirthdate) {
> do something
> } else {
> do some other thing
> }
>
> Is it the correct way to do that?
> cheers
> Jack
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> "There is nothing more rewarding than reaching the goal you set for
> yourself"
>
>
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