Question

I need some assistance.

The code uses a date() function to acquire the report date, while the availability times are manually entered by users. The availability times are then compared to a static time in order to show whether the process was complete on time.

This process works perfectly if all processes run on the same day; however inaccurate reporting occurs when the process completes before midnight of the previous day. This is where I need some assistance.

I need to take the time string, which is set as H:i format, and merge it with the date string, which is set as yyyy/mm/dd. Once this is performed, I can compare it to the report date stamp to get proper reporting.

Answer 1

concatenation operator in PHP is a dot, "."
and you can always concatenate whatever date with whatever time

$date = "2012/01/04";
$time = "22:12";
$datetime = $date." ".$time;

then you can compare the latter variable with whatever datetime of the same format