On Nov 30, 2011, at 5:04 PM, Matijn Woudt wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 11:00 PM, Marc Fromm <Marc.Fromm@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>> I'm puzzled why the if statement executes as true when the first date (job_closedate) is not less than the second date (now).
>> The if statement claims that "12/02/2011" is less than "11/30/2011".
>>
>> if (date("m/d/Y",strtotime($jobs_closedate)) <= date("m/d/Y",strtotime("now"))){
>
> You're comparing strings here, try to compare the unix timestamp:
>
> if (strtotime($jobs_closedate) <= strtotime("now")){
>
> That'll probably do what you want..
>
> Matijn
>
Another way to do it would be:
if(strtotime($jobs_closedate)<=time()) {
}
or
if(date("Y-m-d",strtotime($job_closedate))<=date("Y-m-d",time()) {
}
Take care,
Floyd
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