On 4/30/06, Ross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
soted it ! Thanks.
please enlighten us in case someone else has the same sort of issue...
""Ross"" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >I am using this to compare todays date with dates retieved from a database. >The problem is it seem to retrun the same value for the $then variable > > and can be seen ot working here.... > > http://nationalservicesscotland.com/cms/time.php > > > <? > > session_start(); > include ('../shared/connect.php'); > > $query= "SELECT headline, id, expiry, link FROM events"; > > $result= mysql_query($query); > > > while ($row = @mysql_fetch_array($result, MYSQL_ASSOC)){ > > > $compare= explode("/", $row['expiry']); > > > $day = isset($compare[0]) ? $compare[0] : null; > echo "day is $day<br>br><br>"; > $month = isset($compare[1]) ? $compare[1] : null; > echo "month is $month<br>br><br>"; > $year = isset($compare[2]) ? $compare[2] : null; > echo "year is $year<br>br><br>"; > > $then = mktime(0,0,0,$month,$day, $year); > > $now = mktime (0,0,0,date("m"),date("d"),date("Y")); > > > $diff = $now - $then; > > echo "today is $today<BR>"; > echo "expiry date is $ross<br>"; > echo "now mktime value is is $now<br>"; > echo "then mkvalue is $then<br><br>"; > if ($diff < 0 ) { > /*$text = stripslashes ($row['headline']); > $newtext = wordwrap($text, 12, "\n", 1); > $link=$row['link']; > echo $newtext."<a href=\"$link\">...read more</a>"."<br /><br />";*/ > > } > } > ?> -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
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