翻译强力驱动I got this code from Stackoverflow and changed it slightly to work with today's date.
I want to check if today fits between two dates. But this is not working. What am I missing?
$paymentDate = date('d/m/Y'); echo $paymentDate; // echos today! $contractDateBegin = date('d/m/Y', '01/01/2001'); $contractDateEnd = date('d/m/Y', '01/01/2015'); if ($paymentDate > $contractDateBegin && $paymentDate This is the right answer for your code.. Just use strtotime() php function
$paymentDate = date('Y-m-d'); $paymentDate=date('Y-m-d', strtotime($paymentDate));; //echo $paymentDate; // echos today! $contractDateBegin = date('Y-m-d', strtotime("01/01/2001")); $contractDateEnd = date('Y-m-d', strtotime("01/01/2012")); if (($paymentDate > $contractDateBegin) && ($paymentDate You cannot compare date-strings. It is good habit to use PHP's DateTime object instead:
$paymentDate = new DateTime(); // Today echo $paymentDate->format('d/m/Y'); // echos today! $contractDateBegin = new DateTime('2001-01-01'); $contractDateEnd = new DateTime('2015-01-01'); if ( $paymentDate->getTimestamp() > $contractDateBegin->getTimestamp() && $paymentDate->getTimestamp() getTimestamp()){ echo "is between"; }else{ echo "NO GO!"; }If hours matter:
$paymentDate = strtotime(date("Y-m-d H:i:s")); $contractDateBegin = strtotime("2014-01-22 12:42:00"); $contractDateEnd = strtotime("2014-01-22 12:50:00"); if($paymentDate > $contractDateBegin && $paymentDate You are comparing the dates as strings, which won't work because the comparison is lexicographical. It's the same issue as when sorting a text file, where a line 20 would appear after a line 100 because the contents are not treated as numbers but as sequences of ASCII codes. In addition, the dates created are all wrong because you are using a string format string where a timestamp is expected (second argument).
Instead of this you should be comparing timestamps of DateTime objects, for instance:
$paymentDate = date_create(); $contractDateBegin = date_create_from_format('d/m/Y', '01/01/2001'); $contractDateEnd = date_create_from_format('d/m/Y', '01/01/2015');Your existing conditions will then work correctly.
Use directly
$paymentDate = strtotime(date("d-m-Y")); $contractDateBegin = strtotime("01-01-2001"); $contractDateEnd = strtotime("01-01-2015");Then comparison will be ok cause your 01-01-2015 is valid for PHP's 32bit date-range, stated in strtotime's manual.
Based on luttken's answer. Thought I'd add my twist :)
function dateIsInBetween(\DateTime $from, \DateTime $to, \DateTime $subject) { return $subject->getTimestamp() > $from->getTimestamp() && $subject->getTimestamp() getTimestamp() ? true : false; } $paymentDate = new \DateTime('now'); $contractDateBegin = new \DateTime('01/01/2001'); $contractDateEnd = new \DateTime('01/01/2016'); echo dateIsInBetween($contractDateBegin, $contractDateEnd, $paymentDate) ? "is between" : "NO GO!";Another solution would have been to consider date written as Ymd.
Written in this "format" this is much easy to compare dates.
$paymentDate = date('Ymd'); // on 4th may 2016, would have been 20160504 $contractBegin = 20010101; $contractEnd = 20160101; echo ($paymentDate >= $contractBegin && $paymentDate It will always work for every day of the year and do not depends on any function or conversion (PHP will consider the int value of $paymentDate to compare with the int value of contractBegin and contractEnd).