Question

So in my php script I compare the current time (date()) with the time from the mysql database but it doesn’t work. How do I do this?
PHP

if($row['Datum'] < date(Y-m-d-H-i-s)) { Code to execute}

Mysql DATETIME

2012-11-13 17:00:00

Answer 1

Your current code has syntax errors, but it’s pretty close to something that would work:

if ($row['Datum'] < date('Y-m-d H:i:s')) {
    // Code to execute
}

This is likely to be inside a loop, so you should cache the output of date():

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

// loop here
foreach ($rows as $row) {
    if ($row['Datum'] < $now) {
        // code to execute
    }
}

You could also do the comparison directly in the query:

$now = date('Y-m-d H:i:s');
$db->query("SELECT * FROM whatever WHERE Datum < '$now'");