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

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function getRecentDate($date_list,$curDate){
$curDate = strtotime($curDate); 
    $mostRecent = array();
    foreach($date_list as $date){                                             
       $diff = strtotime($date)-$curDate;
       if($diff>0){
        $mostRecent[$diff] = $date;
       }
    }   
    if(!empty($mostRecent)){
        ksort($mostRecent);            
        $mostRecent_key = key($mostRecent);
        if($mostRecent_key){
            return $mostRecent[$mostRecent_key];
        }
    }else{
        return false;
    }
}
$date_list = array('15-05-2015','14-01-2015','18-03-2015','20-10-2016','12-12-2014','12-12-2015');
$curDate = '14-01-2015';    
$get_recent = getRecentDate($date_list,$curDate);
if($get_recent){
    echo $get_recent;
}else{
    echo 'No recent date exists';
}