Question

I have a string with a date which is in this format MMDDYYYY (ie. 01132012, 01142012 etc.)

I need to do something on a page, if that string is 14 days or less from the current date.

ie. Today is 01132012, so any strings with 12312011 or a less date are going to be showing something on a page.

Can anyone help with this? I’ve tried

echo date("d/m/Y", strtotime('01142012'));

But to no avail.

Answer 1

You can use the DateTime class of PHP

<?
  // current date
  $now = new DateTime();

  //your date
  $date = DateTime::createFromFormat('mdY', '01142012');

  // calculate difference 
  $diff = $now->diff($date);

  ...

  // output the date in format you want
  echo $date->format('d/m/Y');
?>

EDIT: I just realized, that your format isn’t one supported by php. So you have to use alternate objectbuild.