From: Ashley Sheridan
> On Tue, 2009-07-28 at 09:32 -0400, Miller, Terion wrote:
>> I need to take this:
>>
>> $pastDays = strtotime("-30 days");
>>
>>
>>
>> $past_day = date("d", $pastDays);
>>
>> $past_month = date("m", $pastDays);
>>
>> $past_year =date("y", $pastDays);
>>
>>
>> And make it into one var to compare to a db field that is formatted
like
>> 00/00/00
>>
>>
> Erm, why don't you do this:
>
> $pastDays = strtotime("-30 days");
> $date = date("d/m/y", $pastDays);
>
> The date() function allows you to mix in all sorts of characters into
> the output it formats, and you can escape characters that have special
> meaning with a slash '\' character.
The problem with that is if that field is a string, and not formatted as
YY/MM/DD, then a simple compare won't work in January. You have to break
it down into the three components and compare each one in turn.
Bob McConnell
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