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user1847437
user1847437

Reputation: 213

How to check if two dates are in different months

I need to be sure that two dates are in different months, I tryed this wat but I get a bad result 

$to_date = "2015-01-31";
$from_date = "2015-02-01";

$date1 = date_create($to_date);
$date2 = date_create($from_date);

$interval = date_diff($date1,$date2);

$elapsed['days'] = $interval->format('%a'); 
$elapsed['months'] = $interval->format('%m');


------------------- alternative method 
$month0 = date('n',$to_date);
$month1 = date('n',$from_date);
$elapsed['month_diff']=$month1-$month0;

-----------------------------
print_r($elapsed); 

Array ( [month_diff] => 0 [days] => 1 [months] => 0 )

Any tip?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 204

Answers (3)

user1847437
user1847437

Reputation: 213

Also this one works fine

$dateA1 = date_parse($to_date);
$dateA2 = date_parse($from_date);

$elapsed['month_diff']=$dateA1['month']-$dateA2['month'];

Upvotes: 0

u_mulder
u_mulder

Reputation: 54841

Second argument of date is a timestamp, not a string. So, you should use strtotime to get timestamp of your dates:

$month0 = date('n',strtotime($to_date));
$month1 = date('n',strtotime($from_date));
$elapsed['month_diff'] = $month1 - $month0;

Upvotes: 2

Evgeny
Evgeny

Reputation: 4010

You need to use getdate function. This function returns array with information about date. Example:

$to_date = "2015-01-31";
$from_date = "2015-02-01";

$date1 = getdate(strtotime($to_date));
$date2 = getdate(strtotime($from_date));
if($date1["mon"] !== $date2["mon"] {
   ...your code....
}

Upvotes: 2

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