Question

I have a DATETIME column that stores values such as:

2012-05-20 14:00:00

How do I compare the date in $row['Date'] with current date (time is not important) to see if it’s older than today?

if($row['Date'] < ...) {
echo 'date has passed'
}

Answer 1

Why not have SQL do the comparison for you?

SELECT *, DATE(`Date`) < DATE(NOW()) AS is_old ...

Then you’ve got a column called ‘is_old’ which is 1 if the date is before today and 0 if it’s not. So, in PHP, all you need to do is something like:

if ($row['is_old']) {
    // handle the old date case
}