Question

I have dates stored in array for completion status of projects like below

The first two letters are months and other four letters are years

052012(mmyyyy)

$arrDates = array('052012', '042013', '082013', '122013', '022014');

I want this array To get converted to wordings as below

$arrDates = array('Completed', 'Next Six Months', 'Next Year', 'Next Year', 'After 2 Years');

I used a for loop like below for checking completed as below

for($i=0;$i<count($arrDates);$i++)
{
  if((date('m') > substr($arrDates[$i], 0,2)) && (date('y') == substr($arrDates[$i], 2,6)))           
  $strStatus = ' Completed';
}

and I messed up in finding for next year and other two.

Could some one help me in fixing this?

Answer 1

I think you can use DateTime and dateInterval for this :

$currentDate = DateTime::createFromFormat('mY',$arrDates[0]);
$interval = $currentDate->diff(new DateTime('now'),true);
if($interval->invert){
   echo 'Completed';
else if($interval->y >= 2 ){
   echo 'After 2 Years';
}
else if($interval->y == 1){
   echo 'Next Year';
}
else if($interval->m > 6){
   echo 'what you want here';
}
else {
   echo 'Next six months';
}