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phpdatedatetime
jcobhams
jcobhams

Reputation: 824

how to check if a date is three days before today

Hey i would like to know if there is any script (php) that could check if a specified date three days before today.

say..

$d1 = date("Y-m-d", filemtime($testfile));
$d2 = date("Y-m-d");

now i would like to know how to compare this two dates to check if d1 is atleast 3days ago or before d2 any help would be gladly appreciated.

Upvotes: 5

Views: 9503

Answers (6)

Manoj
Manoj

Reputation: 373

well, stunned to see no one is using mktime() function, it makes the job simple

for example your input date is :10/10/2012

mktime convert it to unix time stamp

$check_date=mktime(0,0,0,10,**10+3**,2012);

we can perform any operations weather +,-,*,/

Upvotes: 1

Kalpesh Patel
Kalpesh Patel

Reputation: 2822

Why not to use DateTime object.

 $d1 = new DateTime(date('Y-m-d',filemtime($testfile));
 $d2 = new DateTime(date('Y-m-d'));
 $interval = $d1->diff($d2);
 $diff = $interval->format('%a');
 if($diff>3){
 }
 else {
 }

Upvotes: 8

simply-put
simply-put

Reputation: 1088

use date("Y-m-d", strtotime("-3 day")); for specific date

you can also use

strtotime(date("Y-m-d", strtotime("-3 day")));

to convert it to integer before comparing a date string

Upvotes: 1

xdazz
xdazz

Reputation: 160833

Just check it with timestamp:

if (time() - filemtime($testfile) >= 3 * 86400) {
  // ...
}

Upvotes: 3

Teson
Teson

Reputation: 6736

use timestamp instead of date,

$d1 = filemtime($testfile);
$now = time();
if ($now - $d1 > 3600*24*3) {
  ..
}

Upvotes: 0

Ja͢ck
Ja͢ck

Reputation: 173562

Assuming you wish to test whether the file was modified more than three days ago:

if (filemtime($testfile) < strtotime('-3 days')) {
   // file modification time is more than three days ago
}

Upvotes: 4

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