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

I spend lot of time to compare only dates and i found a solution like this

Always set format like date('Y-m-d')

$dateTo='2016-08-07';
if(date("Y-m-d", strtotime($dateTo)) > date('Y-m-d')){
   echo 'yes';
}else{
   echo 'no';
}