Re: Date comparison going wrong, wrong, wrong

On 11/11/2012 1:30 PM, Terry Ally (Gmail) wrote:

Hi all, I am having a problem with comparing time. I am using the following: $todaydate = date("D, M jS, Y g:i:s a"); $showenddate = date("D, M jS, Y g:i:s a", strtotime($showsRecord['end_date'])); if ($todaydate > $showenddate):

     echo "The date of the show has not yet arrived";

else:

     echo "The show has ended";

endif; The problem that I am encountering is that PHP is rendering the reverse of the equation. For example: If today's date is *11 Nov 2012* and the show's end date is *18 Nov 2012*, the message that I am getting is *the show has ended* which is wrong. A test example is at http://www.lakesidesurrey.co.uk/test.php. You can also me what I am doing wrong? Thanks Terry Besides the minor fact that the code has syntax errors, the problem with it is your if is backwrads. The facts are: today is less than end date, so your if should show "The show has ended" since you are asking if today IS GREATER than the end date.