PHP Check if date is past to a certain date given in a certain format

Question

I have a php event\'s calender which queries the database to get the dates.

I display the event date using:

$event[\'date\']

and t

Answer 1

@Satch3000 You've accepted the wrong answer as a right solution ( @Amal Murali )

Please see the output, Here I input the today date but it returns current date as past date.

Output will be

DateTime Object
(
    [date] => 2017-09-14 00:00:00.000000
    [timezone_type] => 3
    [timezone] => UTC
)
DateTime Object
(
    [date] => 2017-09-14 07:12:52.000000
    [timezone_type] => 3
    [timezone] => UTC
)
date is in the past

Solution

$Date1 = strtotime(date('Y-m-d', strtotime('2017-09-15') ) ).' ';
$Date2 = strtotime(date('Y-m-d'));

  if($Date1 < $Date2) {
        echo 'date is in the past';
    }