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

Compare date time objects:

(I picked 10 days - Anything older than 10 days is "OLD", else "NEW")

$now   = new DateTime();
$diff=date_diff($yourdate,$now);
$diff_days = $diff->format("%a");
if($diff_days > 10){
    echo "OLD! " . $yourdate->format('m/d/Y');
}else{
    echo "NEW! " . $yourdate->format('m/d/Y');
}