How to Compare Dates in php?

Question

i need code to compare date in php

can anyone help on this. Thanks Ramakrishnan.p

Have you had a look through the time functions (http://php.net/manual/en/ref.datetime.php), what have you done with them, is there any particular problem you're having? — deceze, May 25 '10 at 06:06
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score 4 · Answer 1 · edited Jan 25 '16 at 14:34

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This is a late answer. since there is no exact answer to the question here, I'm providing this solution here.

You can do it in this way

$date1 = strtotime("2007-02-20"); // your input
$date2 = strtotime("today"); //today
if($date1 < $date2) {
    echo " input date is in the past";
}

strtotime converts the string in to the unix timestamp integer.

edited Jan 25 '16 at 14:34

Martin

answered Jun 25 '14 at 09:23

Strikers

will it compare date if there is a month difference eg $date1="2016-11-01" and $date2="2016-12-01" ? – kashif Dec 13 '16 at 04:32
Basically it compares 2 dates so it should not be a problem if there is a month difference – Strikers Dec 13 '16 at 06:00

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered May 25 '10 at 06:04

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Take a look at the maketime() function. Then compare the resulting UNIX timestamps.

answered May 25 '10 at 06:04

Jan K.

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New link: http://php.net/manual/en/function.mktime.php or just google php mktime ;) – Srneczek May 06 '15 at 08:48

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered May 25 '10 at 06:06

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Check out Zend Framework's Date: http://framework.zend.com/manual/en/zend.date.overview.html You just need the Date.php file and the Date/Locale folders from the framework to use it.

answered May 25 '10 at 06:06

typeoneerror

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