If the date is between these two dates then

Question

I have a $bonus["from_date"] and a $bonus["to_date"], they are in this format: yyyy-mm-dd I would like to check that the todays date is between those two dates.

$today = date('Y-m-d', time());

How can i do this?

exact duplicate: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/976669/how-to-check-if-a-date-is-in-a-given-range — planestepper, Oct 29 '11 at 20:03

score 13 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 29 '11 at 20:06

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Have a look at strtotime()

$from = strtotime($bonus['from_date']);
$to = strtotime($bonus['to_date']);
$now = time();

if($from <= $now && $to >= $now) {
    // It's between
}

answered Oct 29 '11 at 20:06

Marcus

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I could have swore there was a `between` keyword, but I guess I must be thinking of MySQL. Thanks for the help. – James Jan 09 '13 at 22:35

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 29 '11 at 20:04

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You can use standard comparison operators:

if ($today >= $bonus['from_date'] && $today <= $bonus['to_date'])

It works because you are storing as a string with biggest date elements first.

answered Oct 29 '11 at 20:04

Matthew

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If the date is between these two dates then

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