Comparing Dates

[glenelkins]

Hi

The following lines of code generate 2 dates. Now i want to compare if($weddingdate <= $groupdate) but this does not do anything. How would I compare the two?

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$temp_wd = explode("-",$_POST['date']);
$weddingdate = date("Y-m-d",mktime(0,0,0,$temp_wd[1],$temp_wd[0],$temp_wd[2]));

$temp_gd = explode("-",$_POST['groupdate']);
$groupdate = date("Y-m-d",mktime(0,0,0,$temp_gd[1],$temp_gd[0],$temp_gd[2]));
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cheers

g

[.josh]

the date function creates a string. you can't compare if one string is less than or equal to another string.  For example, what do you expect php to do if you do this?

if ('apples' <= 'oranges') { .. }

you need to do like this:

[code]
$temp_wd = explode("-",$_POST['date']);
$wed = mktime(0,0,0,$temp_wd[1],$temp_wd[0],$temp_wd[2]);
$weddingdate = date("Y-m-d", $wed);

$temp_gd = explode("-",$_POST['groupdate']);
$group = mktime(0,0,0,$temp_gd[1],$temp_gd[0],$temp_gd[2]);
$groupdate = date("Y-m-d",$group);

if ($wed <= $group) { .. }
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the mktime() function creates the unix timestamp which is an integer value, which CAN be compared properly.

[glenelkins]

ah yes, im a dumb ass lol.

cheers Crayon