Date difference

[adzie]

Hello folks,

 

 

Date difference again, I only post this as there is very little resource available on this when searching.

 

I want to perform a certain action if a date is more than 28 days or similar so.

 

$record produces the date 2009 - 07 -31.

 

Any direction appreciated.

 

If $record > 28 days {

echo "no test";

}else{

echo "test";

}

[ignace]

$strtotime = strtotime($row['date']);
$now = time();
$diff = $now - $strtotime;
if ($diff > 2419200/*28 days in time*/) {
    echo 'no test';
} else {
    echo 'test';
}

[adzie]

ignace thanks for that.

 

Is there a way without changing to strtotime?

 

many thanks

[gevans]

There's always other ways to do things, but that is a very straight forward way to do it... Another option would be to explode your date to seperate the year, month and day. Then comapre the day to the current day, compare the month to the current month and year to the current year. Then work you're way through the difference in the day, if it's less than 28 see if the months are different, if they're not check if the years are different, if not then its less than 28 days.