Question

i have a string field (and i can’t change this because the date format) on mysql database that contains a date (Like: “01-03-2010”), and i wan’t to make a function to compare that date and return true if today’s date is newer than 8 days, and false if the date is lower or bigger than today’s date…

Example:

01-03-2010 < (08-06-2010(Today) - 8days) - return true
01-06-2010 < (08-06-2010(Today) - 8days) - return false
31-05-2010 < (08-06-2010(Today) - 8days) - return true

i know that i can convert the string “01-03-2010” to timestamp with strtotime() function on PHP, but i don’w know how to remove 8 days from today’s timestamp… :s

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

strtotime(time_str) < strtotime("-8 day")