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Zack
Zack

Reputation: 183

PHP Date Issue with Excel Sheet

I am trying to convert an old office excel sheet document data into PHP web based app for searching and other data analysis. Stuck in how to fields called start_date & end_date. This tells me that if project is active or not. Data saved in below format. It compares both dates and return the project status by comparing with current date.

Start_Date  End Date  Status
1-Jan-16    31-Dec-16  Active or not

I tried with PHP date("Y-m-d") function but month is an issue.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 31

Answers (1)

Jaquarh
Jaquarh

Reputation: 6683

You can use the strtotime() function on your excel derived dates and then convert it to a usable DateTime value using date() like so:

$time_before = strtotime('1-Jan-16');
$date_before = date('Y-m-d', $time_before); // 2016-01-01

$time_after  = strtotime('31-Dec-16');
$date_after  = date('Y-m-d', $time_after); // 2016-12-31

Then compare the two dates against each other.

Upvotes: 1

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