[SOLVED] time()--how do i know if it is today?

[chantown]

Hi, I have a very simple question

 

I know that if you do time(), it will give u the timestamp right now.

 

Let's say people on my website makes a post, and i record that timestamp.

 

How do I determine if that timestamp is on today?

 

For example, i want it to show

 

Posted TODAY if it was really posted today, but say Posted DEC 5th, if it was not posted today.

 

???

[axiom82]

Your question was hard to interpret.  Maybe you are looking for strtotime('today');

[AntiScourge]

Not sure if this is the simplest way...

 

$currentDate = date("F d y",time());
if ($currentDate == date("F d y", $userSubmittedTime)) {
  echo "Posted Today"
}

 

It formats the two dates into strings that show Month Day Year and compares them.

ex

December 15 2007

[chantown]

great, many thanks!

[corbin]

A mathematical way to do it, which I believe would be faster, although I'm not sure, would be:

 

$now = time();
$then = <posted time>;
if($now - $then <= 86400) {
     //less than or exactly 1 day ago
}