Date Check not working

[doubledee]

I am trying to check if a credit card has expired.

 

My criterion is whether or not the date submitted is prior to this month if the year matches 2011.

 

// Check for Expired Card.
if (($expYear = date('Y')) && ($expMonth < date('M'))){
$errors['expDate'] = 'Expiration Date cannot be in the past.';
}

 

Why is this not working?

 

I chose March 2011 and it fails.

 

In fact, it fails for any date?! 

 

 

 

Debbie

 

 

[Pikachu2000]

if (($expYear == date('Y'))

[doubledee]

if (($expYear == date('Y'))

 

Good catch.  I always seem to make that mistake! 

 

Unfortunately, that didn't fix my problem.

 

Here is my code again...

 

			// Check for Expired Card.
			if (($expYear == date('Y')) && ($expMonth < date('M'))){
//				if (($expYear == '2011') && ($expMonth < '04')){
				$errors['expDate'] = 'Expiration Date cannot be in the past.';
			}else{
					$expMonth = $_POST['expMonth'];
					$expYear = $_POST['expYear'];
			}

 

If I choose May 2011 (i.e. "05" "2011") them my code take the THEN path above and goes to the line...

					$errors['expDate'] = 'Expiration Date cannot be in the past.';

 

When I put in hard-coded values of "2011" and "04" then the code works?!

 

So something is probably wrong with these two statements...

 

== date('Y'))

 

and

 

< date('M')))

 

Also, when I stepped through my code in NetBeans, the values I selected in my drop-down menus (i.e. "05" and "2011") were getting assigned to variables like you'd expect, so I'm really perplexed...

 

 

Debbie

 

 

[Pikachu2000]

Echo date('M') and see what you get. It probably isn't what you're expecting it to be.

[doubledee]

Echo date('M') and see what you get. It probably isn't what you're expecting it to be.

 

Ha ha.

 

Good idea!

 

(I was just copying this out of a book I had..)

 

Okay, so what is the *best* way to get the YEAR and MONTH (as a number)??

 

 

Debbie

 

[PFMaBiSmAd]

The complete php documentation is available online or via download - http://us.php.net/docs.php

 

The page for the date() function would be a worthwhile read.

[doubledee]

The complete php documentation is available online or via download - http://us.php.net/docs.php

 

The page for the date() function would be a worthwhile read.

 

Okay, I got it.

 

I needed a little "m"

 

Thanks,

 

 

Debbie