PHP - Comparing time

Question

I\'m working on a calendar/planner web app and I need to compare the start and end times of events before I store them in my DB. An event can only have a range of one day an

Answer 1

If those times are in the database, comparison operator of the database would works. For example:

SELECT * FROM table WHERE time < NOW()

In PHP, the easiest way to compare times is to convert them to timestamps, and then to compare timestamps as integers. You can use strtotime to do that conversion.

For example:

$time1 = "08:00:00";
$time2 = "09:00:00";

if (strtotime($time1) > strtotime($time2) ||
    strtotime($time1) < strtotime("08:00:00")) {
   ...
}