[SOLVED] if (date == today ) ?

[hassank1]

I've a variable $PostDate .. which I get from a datetime mysql field

 

I want to check if this date is today so I echo "today"

or

if it's yesterday I echo "yesterday"

 

 

[Guest Xanza]

It would depend on the format of $PostDate... For example, if $PostDate shows the date as: "Weekday, Month date" (Example: Monday, April 25) then this would work:

 

<?php

if($PostDate == date("l, F d")){
   echo "Today";
}

if($PostDate == date("l, F d")-1){
   echo "Yesterday";
} 

?>

 

This should work, depending how your initial SQL variable is output, just change date() to suit your needs. Hope this helped!

[hassank1]

Thx , I'll check it ..

 

btw this is an example of a $postdate output :

 

2008-04-18 04:38:08

[Guest Xanza]

Then make the date() function match your SQL output, use php.net to help you: http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.date.php

 

 

[hassank1]

I've used your code to implement these functions .. and everything worked just fine

 

 

function isToday($date) //check if it's today
{
  $date = date("l, F d",strtotime($date));
  if($date == date("l, F d"))
  return true;
  else
  return false; 
}



function isYesterday($date) //check if it's yesterday
{
  $date = date("l, F d",strtotime($date));
  if($date == date("l, F d")-1)
  return true;
  else
  return false; 
}

 

 

[Bendude14]

Instead of using DateTime in my sql use timestamp i believe it is twice as fast...and your code will still work as it returns in the same format

[hassank1]

OK .. thx for the advice .