help with dates

knighthawk1337

on one of my pages i have a submit button that i'm using as a link to a registration page. I only want that button to show up on the page if todays date is between or on two set dates. I have set up an sql database with the startmonth startday and startyear dates in seperate fields. i also have the end dates in seperate fields. How can i write code to display this button if todays date is between theese two dates. Please help.

this is what i have right now. I don't know if i'm even close.

<?php
$dbh = mysql_pconnect("serverip","username","password");
mysql_select_db("database",$dbh);
$query="SELECT * FROM laninfo";
$result=mysql_query($query) or die(mysql_error());
$row = mysql_fetch_array($result);

$todayday=date("j");
$todaymonth=date("n");
$todayyear=date("Y");

$startlanmonth=$row["startmonth"];
$startlanday=$row["startday"];
$startlanyear=$row["startyear"];

$startregmonth=$row["startregmonth"];
$startregday=$row["startregday"];
$startregyear=$row["startregyear"];

$startreg=mktime(0,0,0,$startregmonth, $startregday, $startregyear);
$today=mktime(0,0,0,$todaymonth, $todayday, $todayyear);
$startlan=mktime(0,0,0,$startlanmonth, $startlanday, $startlanyear);

if($startreg <= $today && $today >= $start) {
echo ("<span class=\"newstitle\">Registration is closed.</span>");
}else{
echo("<form name=\"form1\" method=\"post\" action=\"signup.php\"><input type=\"submit\" name=\"Submit\" value=\"Register\"></form></td>");
}
?>

sid

hmmm... could it be that it should sound something like this:

if($startreg <= $today && $startlan >=  $today) { 
    echo("<form name=\"form1\" method=\"post\" action=\"signup.php\"><input type=\"submit\" name=\"Submit\" value=\"Register\"></form></td>"); 
}else{ 
    echo ("<span class=\"newstitle\">Registration is closed.</span>"); 
}

im not sure what $startlan is, but $start doesnt seem to be defined at all...

knighthawk1337

oops thanks for pointing that out but still no luck. This is for a lan party website. I want people to be able to register like a month or so ahead but not too far ahead and i want it to close on the day of the lan party. Just to give you a little background.