Display word NEW if matches date problem

[Sonic_Rage]

I basically want the word NEW to show up when the date is between today and less then 5 days old. I started doing my code like this, but obviously I'm missing much, but I'm drawing a blank, any help please?

            $today_date = date('Y-m-d');
            if($row['date'] >= $today_date)
             {
               echo" <font color=red size=1>New!</font>";
             }

[ScubaKing22]

Try using a timestamp (the ones that look like 34298420943) to compare the dates. This can be done with using time(), and then to get the time 5 days ago you'd use time()-(606024*5). Hope this helps 🙂

[Weedpacket]

You can also use [man]strtotime[/man] to ask for the time '5 days ago' (more reliable than assuming that every day is exactly 432,000 seconds long).