Problem Campare Timestamp with date inside in a array....

[angelicaescobar]

Hello !!  I am new programing PHP, and slow to learn... please i need help.... I hope you can. this is my case:

 

I have a date that is in an array in this posistion:

 

$bookings[$i-1][date("d.m.Y",$timestampOfMonday+($x*86400))]["daterequest"]

 

and i want to compare it with the actual time, and if it is bigger than one hour appears one message......  but it doesnt work      :-\

 

I have the idea to use the time() like this:

 

time($bookings[$i-1][date("d.m.Y",$timestampOfMonday+($x*86400))]["daterequest"]) 

 

but the time that geve me back is the system time, not the time that is storage inside the array...  ???

 

then i have this idea.. but still do not works.... . 

 

$date1 = $bookings[$i-1][date("d.m.Y",$timestampOfMonday+($x*86400))]["daterequest"]; 

        $date2 = time();   

              $dateArr  = explode(".",$date1); 

              $date1Int = mktime(0,0,0,$dateArr[1],$dateArr[2],$dateArr[0]) ;

            $dif = $date2-$date1/60/60/60;               

             

                if (isset($bookings[$i-1][date("d.m.Y",$timestampOfMonday+($x*86400))])){

                 

                  //IF There is a booking and the time of request is smaller than 1 hour, con make changes

                  if  $dif > 3600{ 

                    echo "...make something..."

                  }

                  //IF There is a booking and the time of request is bigger than 1 hour, NO changes  can made

                    else {

                    echo ":....Say other thing.."

      }

                } 

 

 

 

Where is the error??  Why i can compare the dates?? Why if i use the time() it gives me back other time?? 

 

THANKS FOR YOUR HELP!!!

[dvd420]

Hi,

 

First of all time() function returns the current time measured in the number of seconds since the Unix Epoch (January 1 1970 00:00:00 GMT). It does not take any input argument. Even if you supply, it'll return the current time.

 

It seems you are using a 3D array $bookings, which holds the time. Anyways, it doesn't matter.

 

Instead of using time() use date(). The prototype of date() is:

 

string date ( string $format [, int $timestamp ] )

 

The timestamp is optional, its the int value which will be converted into date/time according to the format $format.

 

And regarding your 3rd example: plz check the date format in array.