PHP: How to check if a date is today, yesterday or tomorrow

Question

I would like to check, if a date is today, tomorrow, yesterday or else. But my code doesn't work.

Code:

$timestamp = "2014.09.02T13:34"; $date = date("d.m.Y H:i"); $match_date = date('d.m.Y H:i', strtotime($timestamp));  if($date == $match_date) {       //Today  } elseif(strtotime("-1 day", $date) == $match_date) {      //Yesterday  } elseif(strtotime("+1 day", $date) == $match_date) {      //Tomorrow  } else {      //Sometime  } 

The Code always goes in the else case.

Answer 1

First. You have mistake in using function strtotime see PHP documentation

int strtotime ( string $time [, int $now = time() ] ) 

You need modify your code to pass integer timestamp into this function.

Second. You use format d.m.Y H:i that includes time part. If you wish to compare only dates, you must remove time part, e.g. `$date = date("d.m.Y");``

Third. I am not sure if it works in the same way for you, but my PHP doesn't understand date format from $timestamp and returns 01.01.1970 02:00 into $match_date

$timestamp = "2014.09.02T13:34"; date('d.m.Y H:i', strtotime($timestamp)) === "01.01.1970 02:00"; 

You need to check if strtotime($timestamp) returns correct date string. If no, you need to specify format which is used in $timestamp variable. You can do this using one of functions date_parse_from_format or DateTime::createFromFormat

This is a work example:

$timestamp = "2014.09.02T13:34";  $today = new DateTime("today"); // This object represents current date/time with time set to midnight  $match_date = DateTime::createFromFormat( "Y.m.d\\TH:i", $timestamp ); $match_date->setTime( 0, 0, 0 ); // set time part to midnight, in order to prevent partial comparison  $diff = $today->diff( $match_date ); $diffDays = (integer)$diff->format( "%R%a" ); // Extract days count in interval  switch( $diffDays ) {     case 0:         echo "//Today";         break;     case -1:         echo "//Yesterday";         break;     case +1:         echo "//Tomorrow";         break;     default:         echo "//Sometime"; } 

Answer 2

<?php   $current = strtotime(date("Y-m-d"));  $date    = strtotime("2014-09-05");   $datediff = $date - $current;  $difference = floor($datediff/(60*60*24));  if($difference==0)  {     echo 'today';  }  else if($difference > 1)  {     echo 'Future Date';  }  else if($difference > 0)  {     echo 'tomorrow';  }  else if($difference < -1)  {     echo 'Long Back';  }  else  {     echo 'yesterday';  }   ?>