I need to compare bentween a time taken from a database to the current time.
$DBtime = "2013-10-29 17:38:55";
this is the format of the arrays in the database.
How can I compare it with the current time?
Im not sure how, but maybe converting DBtime to Unixtime then:
(CurrentUnixTime - dbUnixTime) = x
Or maybe, we can take the 17:38 and compare it somehow with date("G:i");
Thank you! I hope you understand what I mean.
You can transform it into a UNIX timestamp using strtotime and then subtract the current timestamp by it.
$DBtime = "2013-10-29 17:38:55";
$db_timestamp = strtotime($DBtime);
$now = time();
$difference = $now - $db_timestamp;
echo $difference;
This will give you the difference in seconds.
You can convert the DBtime string to a unix timestamp in PHP using strtotime. In MySQL, you can use UNIX_TIMESTAMP when querying the column.
time() - strtotime($DBtime)
$date1 = new DateTime('2013-10-29 17:38:55');
$date2 = new DateTime('2013-11-29 18:28:21');
$diff = $date1->diff($date2);
echo $diff->format('%m month, %d days, %h hours, %i minutes');
diff is function of DateTime class which $date1 is object of. It returns an object of DateInterval class. Function format uses common date literals to output what you want in needed format. -> is used to call functions on objects.$DBtime = "2013-10-29 17:38:55";
// Set whatever timezone was used to save the data originally
date_default_timezone_set('CST6CDT');
// Get the current date/time and format the same as your input date
$curdate=date("Y-m-d H:i:s", time());
if($DBtime == $curdate) {
// They match, do something
} else {
// They don't match
}
