Comparing two dates in PHP and MYSQL - php

Question

I want to compare two dates and time values in PHP. One date is coming from MySQL, and second one is the current date. I want to run some code when both dates are the same. I tried the code below, but condition satisfies any time which is wrong.
$current_datetime = date('Y-m-d H:i');
$send_date = date("Y-m-d H:i", strtotime($row['send_date'])); // suppose $row['send_date']'s value is '2016-10-17 15:00'
if($current_datetime == $send_date){
//I want to run some code here
}else{
}
What is wrong with the code? I also tried to covert both dates with strtotime() before comparing, but it gave me the same issue. The above condition satisfies any time even if both dates are different.

Answer 1

Try this :
$current_datetime = date('Y-m-d H:i');
$send_date = date("Y-m-d H:i", strtotime($row['send_date'])); // suppose $row['send_date']'s value is '2016-10-17 15:00'
if(strtotime($current_datetime) == strtotime($send_date)){
//I want to run some code here
}else{
}
Hope it helps !!!!

Answer 2

One way is to fetch the Unix timestamp (seconds since '1970-01-01 00:00:00' UTC) from MySQL, then operate on the numbers:
$row = get_db_row("SELECT UNIX_TIMESTAMP(send_date) AS send_date_ts
FROM table WHERE $condition");
$hours = (int) ($row['send_date_ts'] / 3600);
$current_hours = (int) (time() / 3600);
if ($hours == $current_hours) {
// current hour
}
Timestamps are convenient because:
there is no need to take the format into account;
operations on numbers are usually faster;
the code looks cleaner.

Answer 3

Try this. On my server is working just great I've got something else because they aren't equal. Date which I receive from database is type datetime format 2015-04-13 09:03:49
<?php
$current_datetime = strtotime(date('Y-m-d H:i'));
$send_date = date("Y-m-d H:i", strtotime($row['send_date'])); // suppose $row['send_date']'s value is '2016-10-17 15:00'
if($current_datetime == $send_date){
//I want to run some code here
echo 'something';
}else{
echo 'something else';
}
Output:
echo $current_datetime . '<br/>';
2016-10-17 09:19
echo $send_date .'<br/>';
2015-04-13 09:03
// result
something else