PHP date time greater than today

Question

please help what\'s wrong with my code? It always returns that today\'s date is greater than \'01/02/2016\' wherein 2016 is greater than in 2015.

Answer 1

You are not comparing dates. You are comparing strings. In the world of string comparisons, 09/17/2015 > 01/02/2016 because 09 > 01. You need to either put your date in a comparable string format or compare DateTime objects which are comparable.

 '2016-01-02') {
    echo 'greater than';
}else{
    echo 'Less than';
}

Demo

Or

 $date2) {
    echo 'greater than';
}else{
    echo 'Less than';
}

Demo