Question

I am trying to display an addition image next to an item if it was added to the database 3 days ago or less saying “new”?

In a table called movie there is a field called moviedateadded which stores when the movie was added to the table in DATE format e.g. 2011-09-01.

I’m guessing I need to get the current date from the server, and use an if else statement to say if the moviedateadded is 3 days or less than the server time, echo out “new.jpg”?

Please confirm the best way to do this?

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

<?php
$date = "2011-09-01";
if( (time() - strtotime($date)) > 3*24*60*60 ){
    echo "More than three days";
}
?>

According to your code (edited also <= for 3 or less instead of more than 3

<?php 
    while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)){
        if( (time() - strtotime($row['moviedateadded'])) <= 3*24*60*60 ){ 
            echo "<img src='images/twit.png'/>";
        }

 ?>
<a href="movie.php?movieid=<?php echo $row['movieid']?>">
<img src="content/movie/<?php echo $row['movieimage'] ?>.jpg">
</a>

<?php 
    } 
?>