Date and Time if statment

[NZ_Kiwis]

I want to make sure that the current $date and $time are before the $closetime and $closedate. If it is echo open if not echo close... this is what I have but it does not work.. anyone know why???

$time = 4:45:06 pm;
$date = 2005-10-22;

$closetime =4:45:00 pm;
$closedate = 2005-10-22;

if ($closetime && $closedate > $time && $date) {
echo "Closed";
} else {
Echo "Open";
}

[toxic_brain]

simple, php interprets ur condition using string comparison rules.

so, u first convert btoth dates to timestamps andcheck as

if ($closed_stamp > $timestamp)
...............

[Weedpacket]

Actually it falls over with a parse error because "$time = 4:45:06 pm;" is invalid PHP syntax 🙂. (Even if that worked, $date would equal 1973 because that's 2005-10-22.)

[NZ_Kiwis]

OKay toxic_brain how do I select a date and time with a web form and then convert that to a unix timestamp

[Weedpacket]

[man]strtotime[/man].