Get most recent date from an array of dates

Question

I have the array of dates below

array(5) { 
    [0]=> string(19) \"2012-06-11 08:30:49\" 
    [1]=> string(19) \"2012-06-07 08:03:54\" 
    [2]=> st         


        

Answer 1

$arrayy = array(
    "2012-06-11 08:30:49","2012-06-07 08:03:54","2012-05-26 23:04:04",
    "2012-05-27 08:30:00","2012-06-08 08:30:55" 
);

function getMostRecent($array){
    $current = date("Y-m-d h:i:s");
    $diff1 = NULL;
    $recent = NULL;
    foreach($array as $date){
        if($diff = strcmp($current,$date)){
            if($diff1 == NULL){
                $diff1 = $diff;
                $recent = $date;
            }
            else{
                if($diff < $diff1){
                    $diff1 = $diff;
                    $recent = $date;
                }
            }
        }
    }
    return $recent;
}