PHP date time greater than today

Question

please help what's wrong with my code? It always returns that today's date is greater than '01/02/2016' wherein 2016 is greater than in 2015.

<?php $date_now = date("m/d/Y");  $date = date_create("01/02/2016"); $date_convert = date_format($date, "m/d/Y");  if ($date_now > $date_convert) {     echo 'greater than'; } else {     echo 'Less than'; } 

P.S: 01/02/2016 is coming from the database.

Answer 1

You are not comparing dates. You are comparing strings. In the world of string comparisons, 09/17/2015 > 01/02/2016 because 09 > 01. You need to either put your date in a comparable string format or compare DateTime objects which are comparable.

<?php  $date_now = date("Y-m-d"); // this format is string comparable  if ($date_now > '2016-01-02') {     echo 'greater than'; }else{     echo 'Less than'; } 

Demo

Or

<?php  $date_now = new DateTime();  $date2    = new DateTime("01/02/2016");  if ($date_now > $date2) {     echo 'greater than'; }else{     echo 'Less than'; } 

Demo