Compare given date with today

Question

I have following

$var = \"2010-01-21 00:00:00.0\"

I\'d like to compare this date against today\'s date (i.e. I\'d like to know if this

Answer 1

strtotime($var);

Turns it into a time value

time() - strtotime($var);

Gives you the seconds since $var

if((time()-(60*60*24)) < strtotime($var))

Will check if $var has been within the last day.