How would you...

[rhyno]

I need to figure out if an entered date has occured in the past... eg) I want to meet with you on this date: 2008/02/05 but todays date is 2008/02/12 would you do something like this?

if($_SESSION['contact_array']['meeting_date'] <= getdate()){
then no meeting;
}else {
proceed with the meeting;}

[revraz]

Did you try it?

[rhodesa]

Those values are strings, and won't really compare. I would recommend working with timestamps

 

<?php
$_SESSION['contact_array']['meeting_date'] = strtotime('2/14/2008 1:00PM EST'); //This is a timestamp of 1203012000

if($_SESSION['contact_array']['meeting_date'] < time()){ //time() returns the current time as a timestamp
  //then no meeting;
}else {
  //proceed with the meeting
}
?>

[rhyno]

Yes i did and it appears to work. But was looking for a better way to do it.

 

Thank you rhodesa. I will incorporate that into my script.

[rhodesa]

I always store dates as unix timestamps (both in PHP and in MySQL) because they are unformatted and timezone free. Someone else may be able to convince you otherwise though.