Question

How do you prefer to compare dates when it comes to OOP? What do you think about:

$date1 = new Date();
...
$date2 = new Date();

if ($date1 > $date2) {
    ...
}

Please do not put in example anything like strtotime etc., only OOP.

Answer 1

If you’re using PHP DateTime objects, you can compare dates using the standard comparison operators. For more info and examples, see the DateTime::diff manual page.

Here is example #2 from the manual:

$date1 = new DateTime("now");
$date2 = new DateTime("tomorrow");

var_dump($date1 == $date2);
var_dump($date1 < $date2);
var_dump($date1 > $date2);