On Feb 17, 2008 12:53 AM, Johny Burns <contactus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I am having fields in my table where I put times like 4:30pm in string
> format
>
> Can anybody help with function which helps detect.
> Is it the current time between those fields?
>
> function checkinzone($time1,$time2):boolean
>
> Has to verify does the current time is in those 2 variables.
>
> Thank you for your help. My ability with time and date funtions in PHP are
> not that great
convert $time1 and $time2 to unix timestamps;
from there its a matter of basic logic; something like this (vaguely)
function isTimeBetween($time1, $time2) {
if(!($lowerBound = date('U', $time1)) { return false; }
if(!($upperBound = date('U', $time2)) { return false; }
$curTime = mktime();
if($curTime > $lowerBound && $curTime < $upperBound) {
return true;
} else { return false; }
}
note; $time1 and $time2 will have to unix timestamps; this
function will verify that by passing them through the date() function.
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.date.php
if you want something a little more flexible; check out; strtotime();
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.strtotime.php
and also, the DateTime class will make for good reading ;)
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.date-create.php
-nathan
