How to compare two dates without years in php?

Question

I would like to compare the two dates ,one date is which the 02 aug 1921 , and the second date is present date.How to compare the old date and present date day and month .if

Answer 1

Probably the most straight forward way is strtotime and date.

$date1 = '1 Aug 2012';
$date2 = '1 Aug 1912';
if (date('m-d', strtotime($date1)) === date('m-d', strtotime($date2)) {

}