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i'm developing a PHP program and i must compare a date variable and a string variable. I've tried strcmp but it doesn't work... suggests? Thank's

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  • Is the string variable a date? Commented Nov 11, 2016 at 12:11
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    Possible duplicate of PHP compare two dates Commented Nov 11, 2016 at 12:13

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Best way of comparing dates is using time-stamps :

$string = '11/05/2016';//string variable
$date = date('Y-m-d',time());//date variable

$time1 = strtotime($string);
$time2 = strtotime($date);
if($time1>$time2){
    //do this
}
else{
    //do this
}

I hope it helps

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yes $time1 and $time2 are integers, so everything which works on integers will work on those.
But use === instead as its faster than == and more appropriate. Please mark the answer as accepted for this question if it helped you.
No Problem. Happy Coding!
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$time = strtotime('10/16/2003');

$newformat = date('Y-m-d',$time); //my date format is Y-m-d,usw your date format

there $newformat variable also a date

this way you can compare date and string

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This answer is only partial. While it shows how to prepare the string for comparison with a date, it doesn't show how to do the actual comparison, but the question was "how to compare."

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