Re: Date comparison going wrong, wrong, wrong

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On 11/11/2012 1:30 PM, Terry Ally (Gmail) wrote:
Hi all,

I am having a problem with comparing time. I am using the following:

$todaydate = date("D, M jS, Y g:i:s a");
$showenddate = date("D, M jS, Y g:i:s a",
strtotime($showsRecord['end_date']));

if ($todaydate > $showenddate):
     echo "The date of the show has not yet arrived";
else:
     echo "The show has ended";
endif;

The problem that I am encountering is that PHP is rendering the reverse of
the equation. For example:

If today's date is *11 Nov 2012* and the show's end date is *18 Nov 2012*,
the message that I am getting is *the show has ended* which is wrong. A
test example is at http://www.lakesidesurrey.co.uk/test.php.

You can also me what I am doing wrong?

Thanks
Terry

Besides the minor fact that the code has syntax errors, the problem with it is your if is backwrads. The facts are: today is less than end date, so your if should show "The show has ended" since you are asking if today IS GREATER than the end date.

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