php compare current date with dates stored in database

Question

I am trying coding a php script where i want to extract a date field from a database table,store this date compare it with todays. To see if the data. from database has pass

Answer 1

Use strtotime()

while($info = mysqli_fetch_assoc($result)){
    if(strtotime(date("Y-m-d")) > strtotime($result)){
        exit;
        echo "Success";
    }
    elseif(strtotime(date("Y-m-d")) < strtotime($result)){
        return true;
        echo "Failure";
    }
}