Checking User Date Time

[bjblackmore]

Hi,
I have 3 drop menus, that users select
day | month | year
from, I want to check this date, against the current date, to make sure its not a past date. I have tried
if ($year$month$day < CURDATE()) {
$feedback .= ' ERROR - Past Date Selected ';
return false;
}
But I get a parse error. Can anyone see whats wrong with it?
Many Thanks
Ben

[parena]

You need to put the $year$month$day between quotes or do this: $year.$month.$day

[bjblackmore]

Ok, i managed to make this...

$startdate = mktime ("","","",$smonth, $sday, $syear);
$todaydate = time();
if ($startdate < $todaydate){
$feedback .= ' ERROR - Past Date Selected (Start Date)';
return false;
}

However if you eneter todays date, it see's that as a past date too. Is there away to get it to see today as a current date?
I tried...

if ($startdate < $todaydate-1){

but it didn't make much differance!
Cheers
Ben

[[deleted]]

time() returns a timestamp.
A timestamp includes not only the current date, but also the current time.
The date you enter starts with three times nothing (which should be zero, not "") So the time is 0:00:00 on that date. Which is the beginning of that day.

You could use 'getdate()' to get a string representing today's date, then use mktime to change that into a timestamp (which will then also be a timestamp for 0:00:00 on today's date) and then you can compare it to the timestamp created by the date you entered.

[bjblackmore]

OK thanks, that helped me fix the problem, i set the mktime to

("24","60","60",$emonth, $eday, $eyear);

So it always checks today, as if it were tonight, not this morning. Therefore being in the future.

I was wondering if u could help with the following. Its a piece of code, to make sure enddate is never anymore than 30 after the startdate. I'm sure I had it working once, but now it returns an error even if the date is just 3days not 30.

$startdate = mktime ("0","0","0",$smonth, $sday + 2592000, $syear);
//259000 = 60 60 24 * 30
$enddate = mktime ("0","0","0",$emonth, $eday, $eyear);
if ($enddate > $startdate){
$feedback .= ' ERROR - 30 Days Exceeded ';
return false;
}

Can you see anything wrong here? I thought it was fine.
Many thanks for your previous help
Cheers
Ben

[[deleted]]

$sday + 259200

do you really want a date that's 259200 days in the future? 🙂

[bjblackmore]

Not 259200 days 259200 seconds, which is 30days! I tried $sdays + 30 and it wouldn't work, but now I have $sdays + 259200 it seems to be working. If i enter 1st July, & 2nd August it returns '30 days exceeded'.
Cheers
Ben

[[deleted]]

mktime ("0","0","0",$smonth, $sday + 2592000, $syear);

this quite literally means that you want to add 259200 days, NOT seconds.
mktime() will fail on this, and return -1

So whatever you programmed may seem to work, but it's definately not doing what you want it to do.