Checking the date

[nwkeeley]

I am not very good with dates and php but what I am trying to do is create a 'Date Checker'.
Basically there is a date() column in the database and php pulls that date out and compares it to see if it is say... 1 week old, or 2 weeks old whatever. Could someone point me in the direction of a good tutorial or code snippet that may help? Thanks in advance! 🙂

[TheDefender]

The best thing to do (if you are dealing with dates after Jan 1, 1970 is to store the date using the [man]strtotime[/man] function. Then you take your comparison date, and convert it using the same functions. You subtract one from the other (gives you the difference in seconds), and then use simple math to convert the seconds to days, months, weeks, etc.