[SOLVED] inequality comparing two identical time strings?

[bluesoul]

$exp_date[$k] = date('Y-m-d',strtotime($exp_date[$k]));
$whois_exp_date[$k] = date('Y-m-d',strtotime($whois_exp_date[$k]));

 

Both results in this instance are 2009-08-02 yet when I run...

 

if ($exp_date[$k] == $whois_exp_date[$k])
			{ $sort[$k] = "match"; }

		if ($exp_date[$k] != $whois_exp_date[$k])
			{ $sort[$k] = "nomatch"; }

		else { $sort[$k] = "error"; }
echo $sort[$k]; // error

 

 

[premiso]

You're if statements are wrong. Try this:

 

if ($exp_date[$k] == $whois_exp_date[$k])
{ $sort[$k] = "match"; }
elseif ($exp_date[$k] != $whois_exp_date[$k])
{ $sort[$k] = "nomatch"; }

else { $sort[$k] = "error"; }

 

It should work. (note [ php] kills formatting when copy/pasting.)

[bluesoul]

/blink

 

I should stop coding when hungry.

 

That's weird, though.  I didn't expect an elseif to be the cause.  Live and learn I suppose.

[premiso]

The reason being is you used two if statements. The first one ran, than the second also ran, which of course the dates were equal so that if statement went to the else, thus overwriting the $sort[$k].

 

You set your self up to fail by doing that =), the elseif makes it all part of the same if so $sort[$k] does not get overwritten.

[bluesoul]

The reason being is you used two if statements. The first one ran, than the second also ran, which of course the dates were equal so that if statement went to the else, thus overwriting the $sort[$k].

 

You set your self up to fail by doing that =), the elseif makes it all part of the same if so $sort[$k] does not get overwritten.

 

Yup, that makes sense, it was set to match, then the second if statement executed, which failed and so went to the else.  Thanks.