Check today's date with specified date range with PHP [duplicate] - php

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How to check if a date is in a given range?
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I want to check the today's date with specified range of dates and want it to return true if the today's date is between the specified range dates
Something like this:
if (todaysDate is between "2017-04-24 ... 2017-08-30") {
return true;
}
Is there any way to check this in PHP?

Answer 1

Here is some code that may help you, create a function if you want to.
$today= date('Y-m-d');
$today=date('Y-m-d', strtotime($today));;
$date1= date('Y-m-d', strtotime("01/01/2001"));
$date2= date('Y-m-d', strtotime("01/01/2012"));
if (($today> $date1) && ($today< $date2)){
echo "OK !";
}else{
echo "NO OK !";
}

Answer 2

Just create your own method like so:
function isBetweenDates($dateToCheck, $firstDate, $secondDate){
if (($dateToCheck > $firstDate) && ($dateToCheck <
$secondDate))
{
return true;
}
else
{
return false;
}
}
Then call it with dates:
echo isBetweenDates(date('Y-m-d'),strtotime("01/01/2016"),strtotime("01/01/2018"));
Which will return true, because today's date is between 2016 and 2018.
based on: PHP check if date between two dates
Edit:
You could even generalize the function and use it on ints too:
function isBetween($varToCheck, $lowerLimit, $upperLimit){
if (($varToCheck > $lowerLimit) && ($varToCheck <
$upperLimit))
{
return true;
}
else
{
return false;
}
}
Or even make it super specific by converting the input to dates:
function isBetweenDates($dateToCheck, $start_date, $end_date)
{
$start = strtotime($start_date);
$end = strtotime($end_date);
$date = strtotime($dateToCheck);
// Check that user date is between start & end
return (($date > $start) && ($date < $end));
}