date_diff if statement

[jarvis]

Hi,

I'm struggling with something which I thought would be very simple. I'm using date_diff to compare to dates, I then wish to run an if statement depending on the difference in days. For example:

<?php
$date1=date_create("2013-03-15");
$date2=date_create("2013-12-12");
$diff=date_diff($date1,$date2);
echo $diff->format("%R%a days");
?>

The output is therefore:  "+272 days" ;

 

So why does this not work:

$test = $diff->format("%a");
echo $test.'<br>';

if ($test > '250'){
	echo 'whoa';	
}

Am I missing something?

Thanks

[jarvis]

Scrap that, I worked it out when I posted and tidied the above - sorry!

[Jacques1]

I hope you're now using the numeric days property rather than fumbling with format strings.