Question

Using MySQL, i have a current timestamp that looks like this:

2011-11-01 10:34:24

Is there a PHP function that I could use to “check against” this time? I want to know if this time is more than a day old from “now”.

Edit: Solution (that works for my usecase)

date_default_timezone_set('UTC');

// date voted
$date_voted = '2011-09-01 10:34:24'; 

// +24
$future_time = ( strtotime($date_voted) ) + 86400;

// current time
$curr_time = time(); 

if ( $curr_time < $future_time ) { 
    echo "You can't vote just yet!\n\n";
} else if ( $curr_time >= $future_time ) { 
    echo "Vote counted!\n\n"; 
} 

Answer 1

$some_date = strtotime('2011-11-01 10:34:24');
$now = time();
$seconds_diff = $now - $some_date;
$days = $seconds_diff / 86400;
echo $days;