if statement help

[eddbrett]

Need abit of help with an IF statement. Basically I want it to compare the two times and if the difference is greater than 3 minutes change the statement from Listening now to:-' to 'Last listened to:-'

 

$date = str_tz('jS M Y, H:i',$section['date'],$offset); //Last.fm date/time of last song played
	$date3 = date('jS M Y, H:i'); //current date/time

	if (($date) == ($date3)) {
	echo 'Listening now to:-';
	} else {
	echo 'Last listened to:-';
	}

 

Thats what I have atm, but I need to allow for a gap of 3 minutes and I don't know how to do it. Thanks

[aggrav8d]

instead of date(), convert the values with mktime.  as long as the difference is greater than 180 you've got your 3 minute difference.

[MatthewJ]

Something like this maybe?

 

$date = strtotime($section['date']); //Last.fm date/time of last song played
$date2 = time(); //current date/time
$date3 = ($date2 - $date) / 60; // Number of minutes
      
if (($date3) < 3) {
echo 'Listening now to:-';
} else {
echo 'Last listened to:-';
}

 

[aggrav8d]

Sure!

 

It's slightly faster to use 180 so that he parser doesn't have to divide by 60 every time it runs this script.  You could also compare to 3*60 (multiplication is always faster than division)

[eddbrett]

Could you explain how you convert into mktime.

Been trying, but can't seem to get it to work