PHP: Birthday check today´s date

Question

I have user´s birthday stored in birthday as 1999-02-26.

How can I check if the birthday is today?

if(date('m-d') == ..?

Answer 1

This answer should work, but it depends on strtotime being able to figure out your database's date format:

$birthDate = '1999-02-26'; // Read this from the DB instead
$time = strtotime($birthDate);
if(date('m-d') == date('m-d', $time)) {
    // They're the same!
}