date issue

[blake74]

among other things, i am storing date data in mysql. it is stored as yyyy-mm-dd. i can pull the data and display it via

<?=$row["stored"]?>

, "stored" being the date. what i want to do if have an if statement that says

if "stored" is less than 7 days old, it echoes new.gif.

I am fine with regular if statements, but haven't worked with dates much at all. can anyone help me with this?

[drew010]

heres something i just put together than will work...

<?php

$days_new = 7;


$dbdate = '2005-10-23';

echo isNew($dbdate, $days_new);


function isNew($date, $numDays)
{
	return (time() - strtotime($date) < $numDays * 86400) ? TRUE : FALSE;
}

?>

[blake74]

thanks for the reply. i am getting error with:

echo isNew($dbdate, $days_new);

I'm somewhat new at this.

[drew010]

whats the error, it should work fine by itself, if you want to include it with your code it will need to be modified slightly. that just demonstrates how to call that function.

[blake74]

it is telling me that isNew is an undefined function

[drew010]

pretty weird, the function is right below the call to it. should be ok as is.