Date > A future date

[Icebergness]

Hi,

 

This one has been driving me up the wall, so hopefully some kind person can help me.

 

I'm trying to make a validation script. $creststartdate comes in from a form as a UK formatted date (d/m/Y), and if $creststartdate is more than a month ahead of today, then it gets rejected. here's the code I have now...

 

            $today = date("m/d/y");
            $onemonth = strtotime ('+1 month', strtotime($today));
            $nextmonth = date ('d/m/Y', $onemonth);
            
            $csd = date("m/d/y", $creststartdate);
            $strcsd = strtotime($csd);
            $newdate = date ('d/m/Y', $strcsd);

            if ($newdate > $nextmonth)
                {
                    $creststartdatefailed = "The Crest Start Date cannot be more than 1 month in the future.";
                    $creststartdatevalid = "NO";
                }

 

As it stands, this version of the code means that nothing is getting rejected.

 

Please help?? 

 

Cheers

[Jessica]

Compare them as timestamps, not strings.You have  $onemonth (which is one month from today) and $strcsd (which is a unix timestamp of the date). Compare those two.

 

Also go through and echo all your variables to see what they hold, make sure they are what you expect.

[Barand]

try

<?php
  $creststartdate = '15/6/2012';                 // UK date, unfortunate a format
                                                 // not recognised by strtotime()
  date_default_timezone_set('GMT');
                                                 
  list($d, $m, $y) = explode('/', $creststartdate);
  if (mktime(0,0,0,$m,$d,$y) > strtotime('+ 30 days')) {
    echo "Beyond 30 days";
  } else {
    echo "OK";
  }
?>

[Icebergness]

try

<?php
  $creststartdate = '15/6/2012';                 // UK date, unfortunate a format
                                                 // not recognised by strtotime()
  date_default_timezone_set('GMT');
                                                 
  list($d, $m, $y) = explode('/', $creststartdate);
  if (mktime(0,0,0,$m,$d,$y) > strtotime('+ 30 days')) {
    echo "Beyond 30 days";
  } else {
    echo "OK";
  }
?>

 

Barand,

 

Thank you!! I'm still learning a lot of PHP and haven't dabbled in mktime yet. I'd looked at it, but wasn't sure how to use it, but that worked perfectly. I can sleep tonight!