Finding if a date is in the past

Joe127

Hi,

I have two variables $dateDD and $dateMM which represent a day and month in figures.

I need to find out if this date has already passed in the current year. For example:

$dateDD=2
$dateMM=3
Would represent 2nd March, which hasnt passed.

Thanks,

NogDog

One way:

$time = mktime(23, 59, 59, $dateMM, $dateDD, date('Y'));
if($time < time())
{
   echo 'date is in the past';
}

Joe127

Thanks, didnt realise it was that simple! For some reason though this keeps outputting 01/01/2010.

<?
$schoolID=$_POST['schoolID'];
$query="SELECT * FROM clients WHERE ID='$schoolID'";
$result=mysql_query($query);
$renewalDate=mysql_result($result,0,"renewalDate");

if ($numrows == 0) {
	$dateDD=1;
	$dateMM=date("m"+1);
	$dateYYYY=date('Y');
} else {
$dateDD=date("d", $renewalDate);
$dateMM=date("m", $renewalDate);

$time = mktime(23, 59, 59, $dateMM, $dateDD, date('Y'));
	if($time < time())
	{
		$dateYYYY=date('Y'+1);
	} else {
		$dateYYYY=date('Y');
	}
}
?>

Joe127

I have now fixed this, thanks.

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