Compare Date in an Array to Current Date

[sactown]

Hello,

In a array ( [0] => url [1] => head [2] => source [3] => time ). I want to output only the latest articles (from the array key "time").

The script currently outputs all articles with their dates and times. A sample output of a value from the key "time" looks like this:

Sep 22 2002 12:21 p.m.
(the date and time are toghther)

I am not sure which PHP function(s) to use, to do what I want. Which is basically compare the date (month and day) in the array to the current date (using date("M d"); ) to filter out the any old articles.

I've seen in_array, and array_search, in the manuals, but don't think they'll work.

{Statements Needed Here}
{Then do the following if true}

$temp["time"] = preg_replace ("/AM/", " a.m.", $temp["time"]);
$temp["time"] = preg_replace ("/PM/", " p.m.", $temp["time"]);
echo "<a href=\"".$temp["url"]."\" target=\"_blank\">".$temp["head"]."</a>\n<br>\n";
echo "<font size='2'>[".$temp["source"]."] - ".$temp["time"]."</font>\n<br>\n<br>\n\n";
}	

Any ideas

[examancer]

have you tried the strtotime() function?

you would use it like this:

$test = strtotime($temp['time']);
if ($test >= (time() - 2592000)) { // if the article is newer than one month or 2592000 (30 days) seconds ago
  // show article here
} else {
  // show error saying the article is too old here, or don't show anything at all.
}

[sactown]

Thanks!

That works out great.