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Fawad ali
Fawad ali

Reputation: 33

Check if time expression fall inside of time range that crosses over midnight

I have following code I am trying to compare two get in order to get into if statement but I something wrong with is code.

the following code should run if the time is above 23:29 and less then 08:10...

$gettime = "04:39"; // getting this from database

$startdate = strtotime("23:29");
$startdate1 = date("H:i", $startdate);

$enddate = strtotime("08:10");
$enddate1 = date("H:i", $enddate);

if ($gettime >= strtotime($startdate1) && $gettime <= strtotime($enddate1)) {
    echo "ok working";
}

Upvotes: 0

Views: 751

Answers (5)

Nir Alfasi
Nir Alfasi

Reputation: 53525

Assuming you're receiving the time from the DB in a date format (and not as a string):

change:

if($gettime >= strtotime($startdate1) && $gettime <= strtotime($enddate1))

to:

if($gettime >= strtotime($startdate1) || $gettime <= strtotime($enddate1))

Upvotes: 1

Alfred
Alfred

Reputation: 21386

You may refer to PHP documentation about DateTime::diff function at their website http://php.net/manual/en/datetime.diff.php

You may also go through this stackoverflow question How to calculate the difference between two dates using PHP?

Upvotes: 0

blad
blad

Reputation: 664

Make sure your comaring the right types of data, time stamps with time stamps and not w/ strings etc...

$gettime= strtotime("22:00"); // getting this from database

$startdate = strtotime("21:00");
//$startdate1 = date("H:i", $startdate);

$enddate = strtotime("23:00");
//$enddate1 = date("H:i", $enddate);


//this condition i need to run    

if($gettime >= $startdate && $gettime <= $enddate)
{
echo"ok working";
}

Upvotes: 1

alanmanderson
alanmanderson

Reputation: 8200

You are comparing the string with a date. $gettime is a string and you are comparing it with a time object.

You need to convert $gettime to a time object by calling $gettime = strtotime($gettime), and then you can compare it using > or < like you have above.

Upvotes: 1

rx80
rx80

Reputation: 156

For comparing times, you should use the provided PHP classes The DateTime::diff will return an object with time difference info: http://www.php.net/manual/en/datetime.diff.php

Upvotes: 0

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