date limitations

noeffred

i need some advice on how to check if a specified date is between 2 other dates.

to be more specific:
user a is on vacation starting at 2002-8-19 until 2002-9-21.

if date("Y-m-d") is between these two, show this entry, otherwise don't do anything.

now I have been experimenting quite a lot and have tried everything that came to my mind. the last idea is to fill an array with valid dates and then check if the current date is in_array(), but that seems to be a bad idea because this might be too slow, since this page will be loaded several thousand times a day.

any ideas?

Weedpacket

Yet another question that gets asked on a weekly basis...

Assuming you have the dates in strings in the form "yyyy-mm-dd", the easiest function to use would be strtotime(). If you've already disassembled them into seperate year, month and day variables, then mktime() would be the most convenient. Whichever.

Either way, use it to convert all three dates (the two range limits $min and $max, and the specified date $date) into timestamps. Then see if $min<=$date and $date<=$max.