Question

I would like to compare PHP:

$now = date('Y-d-m H:i:s');

with mysql CURRENT_DATE() and die();

I need to check if the mysql current_date is the same as $now.

However, I don’t know how to do that. I would probably need some format change to CURRENT_DATE() too so I can compare it with $now = date('Y-d-m H:i:s');

Is this possible?

If yes, what would php code look like?

Answer 1

In MySQL the CURDATE() returns the current date in ‘YYYY-MM-DD’ format or ‘YYYYMMDD’ format depending on whether numeric or string is used in the function.

CURRENT_DATE and CURRENT_DATE() are the synonym of CURDATE().

SELECT CURDATE();

Example of MySql – curdate() function

$result = mysql_query("SELECT CURDATE()");
while($row=mysql_fetch_array($result))
{ 
echo $row['CURDATE()'] ;
}

Example of MySql – curdate() function in numeric format

$result = mysql_query("SELECT CURDATE()+1");
while($row=mysql_fetch_array($result))
{

echo $row['CURDATE()+1'];

}

i have used the mysql_* function only for i understand i don’t recommended to use mysql_* function