Strtotime()
Look it up in the manual :-)
-Original Message-
From: Karen Resplendo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: den 7 november 2003 19:44
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [PHP-DB] CONVERT STRING VARIABLES TO DATES, THEN COMPARE (HOW?)
Apache on NT using MS SQL Srvr 2000
PHP 4.03pl1
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On Saturday 08 November 2003 02:44, Karen Resplendo wrote:
Apache on NT using MS SQL Srvr 2000
PHP 4.03pl1
I return these dates into strings and now I want to compare my database
date to see if it is later than today's date. Pretty sure my Expires
field is a string:
Here is the Expires
Yes, the values echo out the way I expect them. But these are displayed values, not
dates, I'm pretty sure, and that is why the comparison is failing.
The question began very simply. I will try to make it simpler:
How do I compare a string date from a database to today's date using PHP?
I can
Education :)
(it seems like such a simple thing to do, to look up, to have in someone's library of
code, yet. . . . . . .)
I can do it with my eyes closed in SQL. I don't want to if I can avoid it.
It's more efficient to do so, so can I ask why you want to avoid it?
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Jason Wong -
