At 05:08 PM 8/11/2002 -0600, RPS Internet wrote:
>Your working with strings right? Would your if command be:
>if ($start_dts gt $end_dts) {
> echo "This function thinks the end date is older than the start date.";
> }
> else {
> echo "Whoah, it actually worked.";
> }
>
>In string you should use the gt comparitive instead of the >.
>
>See if this works for you,
>
>Josh Thomas
>RPS Internet Services
>-----Original Message-----
>From: jc [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Sunday, August 11, 2002 4:01 PM
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: [PHP] mkdate error?
>
>
>The following bit of code completely baffles me as to why it doesn't work.
>I am doing a very simple validation where I check to see if the "end date"
>field of an inputted record is an older date than the "start date".
>
>I checked this by putting in the same date for both end and start dates. Yet
>mkdate gives me a different value for each even though since they are both
>the same date, I should get the same value returned. Right?
>
>//notice the start and end date is the same. Therefore, you should get the
>same value for each, right?
><START LITTLE CODE SNIPPET>
> $parsed_start_date=split("/", "08/02/2002");
> $parsed_end_date=split("/", "08/02/2002");
> $start_dts = mktime("", "", "", $parsed_start_date[0],
>$parsed_start_date[1], $parsed_start_date[2]);
> $end_dts = mktime("", "", "", $parsed_end_date[0], $parsed_end_date[1],
>$parsed_date[2]);
> if ($start_dts > $end_dts) {
> echo "This function thinks the end date is older than the start date.";
> }
> else {
> echo "Whoah, it actually worked.";
> }
><END LITTLE CODE SNIPPET>
>
>What am I not seeing?
>Thanks in advance,
>J. Chyun
>
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