PHP function to check time between the given range?

Question

I am using PHP\'s Date functions in my project and want to check weather a given date-time lies between the given range of date-time.i.e for example if the current date-time

Answer 1

Simply use strtotime to convert the two times into unix timestamps:

A sample function could look like:

function dateIsBetween($from, $to, $date = 'now') {
    $date = is_int($date) ? $date : strtotime($date); // convert non timestamps
    $from = is_int($from) ? $from : strtotime($from); // ..
    $to = is_int($to) ? $to : strtotime($to);         // ..
    return ($date > $from) && ($date < $to); // extra parens for clarity
}