[ciapug] Dates question

[Tim Perdue]

Chris Hettinger wrote:

> Working with dates still challenges me
> 
> $date1 = date('Y-m-d H:i:s');  // current date
> $date2 = X;
> 
> I need to know if $date2 is 30 or more days in the future from the 
> current date.
> 
> If $date2 >= $date1 by 30 days
>   echo 'date2 is more than 30 days in the future';
> else
>   echo 'date2 within 30 days of date1';
> 
> 
> ^^--- how do I do this comparison?

This is some date code from gforge:

$date_list = split('[- :]',$release_date,5);
$release_date = 
mktime($date_list[3],$date_list[4],0,$date_list[1],$date_list[2],$date_list[0]);

This rips a date like "2004-09-17 16:43" and makes it into unix time 
(seconds since 1970).

You should be able to apply that logic to both of your dates and then test

if (($date2-$date1) > (30*24*60*60)) {
	greater than 30 days
}

Tim