operations with dates

[giulioan]

Hello,
I need to confront two dates starting from two strings but I don't get how to do it. I don't undestand wheter date is an object and hot to treat in php.
Anybody can help ??

[cschotch]

Im not quite understanding what the final output you need is...

[giulioan]

it's the function mktime() that I was looking for, to confront two dates starting from their string representation, here's an example

<?php
$birthday_stamp = mktime(19,45,0,3,10,1975);
$birthday_formatted = date('F d, Y - g:i a',$birthday_stamp);

echo "David was born on $birthday_formatted."
?>

will produce

David was born on March 10, 1975--7:45 p.m.

Thanks

Giulio