date compare?

[searain]

I cannot directly to compare two dates which is the older date, right? Date value is tring. Right?

So if I want to compare two dates older or newer, I need to transfer these two dates values to time values by using mktime()?

Am I right?

Thanks!

[lilleman]

I think you can do like this:

<?php

$firstDate  = '1999-12-31';
$secondDate = '2000-01-01';

if( $firstDate > $secondDate ) {
  echo "{$firstDate} > {$seconDate}";
} else {
  echo "Nah...";
}

?>

/ Erik

[leatherback]

Hi Searain,

Yes. If you just have $date = "1-12-2003"; it is considered a string. You should convert it into a timestamp to make proper comparisons. BUT if you gat you rdate from a database timestamp field, you can compare them directly, since it is transferred as a date/time/timestamp variable.

J.