Question

Need to check wether a given date is in between two given dates using PHP, This is the code I’ve written:

$today = date_create('28-Feb-2012');
$fromdate = date_create('20-Feb-2012');
$todate = date_create('22-Feb-2012'); 
if ($today>=$fromdate && $todat<=$todate)
{
    echo 'in range';
}
else
{
    echo 'not in range';
}

But this always returns in range. Can’t figure out where the problem is. Please help.

Answer 1

I know it’s a bit of a hacky solution, but I tend to use strtotime() for that kind of thing, as it returns an integer:

$today = time();
$fromdate = strtotime('20-Feb-2012');
$todate = strtotime('22-Feb-2012'); 
if ($today>=$fromdate && $today<=$todate)
{
    echo 'in range';
}
else
{
    echo 'not in range';
}

EDIT: i assume the $todat was just a typo into stackoverflow, and that in your code you actually have $today, but if not that might be your problem – undefined variables, in some settings, can be considered 0 I believe.