Question

i have this code here which permits me to retrieve some dates.
I have a today date conserved in this way:

$time = date("d-m-Y");

My date field in the database is a varchar and it’s in this format: d-m-Y

How can i compare them? i’ve used this but it won’t work!

SELECT DATE_FORMAT('date','%d-%m-%Y'), id, WHERE date>$time;

Thanks for the help!

Answer 1

If you want to compare date by fetching from database then I will suggest you to store in date format not in varchar format.

But now you can do following :

First use strtotime to convert your string to a unix timestamp. Like :

$time = strtotime( $date );

Then you use this timestamp to calculate a date in whatever format you want. To get your desired format you can do like :

$newDate = date( 'd-m-y', $time );