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How do you get today's date, as a date object?
I'm trying to compute the difference between some start date and today. The following will not work, because getdate() returns an array and not a date object:
$today = getdate(); $start = date_create('06/20/2012'); $diff = date_diff($start, $today); echo($today . '<br/>' . $start . '<br/>' . $diff); Output:
Array ( [seconds] => 8 [minutes] => 1 [hours] => 16 [mday] => 11 [wday] => 1 [mon] => 6 [year] => 2012 [yday] => 162 [weekday] => Monday [month] => June [0] => 1339455668 )
DateTime Object ( [date] => 2012-06-20 00:00:00 [timezone_type] => 3 [timezone] => America/Los_Angeles )
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Answer: Use the PHP date() Function You can simply use the PHP date() function to get the current data and time in various format, for example, date('d-m-y h:i:s') , date('d/m/y H:i:s') , and so on.
$today = date('d-m-y'); to $today = date('dd-mm-yyyy');
php $query = "INSERT INTO guestbook SET date = CURRENT_TIMESTAMP"; $sql = mysql_query($query) or die(mysql_error()); ?> Which means that it is automatically populated with the current date, the minute a record is created or updated.
PHP time() Functionecho(date("Y-m-d",$t));
new DateTime('now'); http://www.php.net/manual/en/datetime.construct.php
Comparing is easy:
$today = new DateTime('now'); $newYear = new DateTime('2012-01-01'); if ($today > $newYear) { } Op's edit I just needed to call date_default_timezone_set, and then this code worked for me.
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