Easy date() Question

[Gena_Wenli]

How would I write "between May 22nd and September 4th" with PHP's date() function? I want to use an if() statement to see if the date is within these paramaters, then echo text based on that. I just don't know how to say that with date(). Thanks!

G

[Installer]

What form are your bounding dates in--Unix or MySQL timestamp, MySQL datetime, some other? What is "the date"?

[Gena_Wenli]

"The date" is whatever I get with date(). I assume that's the server's date? Sorry, I'm inexperienced with this.

G

[Installer]

You don't say what form the bounding dates are in, so I'll assume Unix timestamp.
This might get what you're after:

$now = time();
if (($now >= $some_timestamp) && ($now <= $some_later_timestamp)) {
    echo 'Now is between ' . date('F jS', $some_timestamp) . 
         ' and ' . date('F jS', $some_later_timestamp);
} else {
    echo 'Now is not between ' . date('F jS', $some_timestamp) . 
         ' and ' . date('F jS', $some_later_timestamp);
}

[Gena_Wenli]

I want to use this yearly. If I use the Unix timestamp, isn't that a one-time type thing? Thanks for your help!

G

[Installer]

This should work:

$begin_ts = strtotime('5/22');
$end_ts = strtotime('9/4');
$now_ts = time(); 
echo 'Now is';
if (!($now_ts >= $begin_ts) || !($now_ts <= $end_ts)) { 
    echo ' not'; 
}
echo ' between ' . date('F jS', $begin_ts) . ' and ' . date('F jS', $end_ts);

[Gena_Wenli]

Thanks! That seems to work great. I could have never done that on my own!

G