PHP compare time

Question

How to compare times in PHP?

I want to say this:

$ThatTime ="14:08:10"; $todaydate = date('Y-m-d'); $time_now=mktime(date('G'),date('i'),date('s')); $NowisTime=date('G:i:s',$time_now); if($NowisTime >= $ThatTime) {     echo "ok"; } 

The above code does not print ok. I expected it to.

Answer 1

$ThatTime ="14:08:10"; if (time() >= strtotime($ThatTime)) {   echo "ok"; } 

A solution using DateTime (that also regards the timezone).

$dateTime = new DateTime($ThatTime); if ($dateTime->diff(new DateTime)->format('%R') == '+') {   echo "OK"; } 

http://php.net/datetime.diff

Answer 2

To see of the curent time is greater or equal to 14:08:10 do this:

if (time() >= strtotime("14:08:10")) {   echo "ok"; } 

Depending on your input sources, make sure to account for timezone.

See PHP time() and PHP strtotime()