[RESOLVED] If date variable is gearter than

dcjones

Hi all,

I am trying to do an if statement that look at todays date and displays information if the date now is less than or greater than.

This is what I have so far:

if ($row_owners['accomarrival'] >= date()) && ($row_owners['accomdepartdate'] <= date()) {
echo $row_owners['houseno'];
}
else
{
echo $row_owners['accom1'];
}

But I keep getting an error. Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_BOOLEAN_AND.

what am i missing. I need a new pair of eyes to look it over.

laserlight

You have mismatched parentheses.

bradgrafelman

If you'll look in the manual for an [man]if/man statement, you'll see that the entire expression should be wrapped in a set of parenthesis. Also, there is no need to group the two statements on either side of the '&&' operator.

laserlight

hmm... sorry, bradgrafelman's explanation is better. The parentheses do match in terms of pairing, but the opening parenthesis "belonging" to the if conditional does not match with what you expected it to.

dcjones

Hi both and thank you for your time.

I have removed the parenthesis from the individual parts, but I still get an error;

if ($row_owners['accomarrival'] >= date() && $row_owners['accomdepartdate']) <= date()) {
echo $row_owners['houseno'];
}
else
{
echo $row_owners['accom1'];

}

Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_IS_SMALLER_OR_EQUAL.

Is it becuase I have the >= date() written incorrectly?

bradgrafelman

dcjones wrote:
Is it becuase I have the >= date() written incorrectly?

Nope... you just have one stray parenthesis before that operator that's fouling things up.

laserlight

It should be:

if ($row_owners['accomarrival'] >= date() && $row_owners['accomdepartdate'] <= date()) {

I would advise you to use a text editor that supports brace/bracket/parenthesis matching.

Also, I have never tried date() without parameters... but it does return a string. Do you want to use time() instead?

dcjones

Hi, bradgrafelman

I could not see the trees for the forest, thank you.

bradgrafelman

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