Shortest way to compare 2 dates in dd/mm/yyyy format

Question

can anyone suggest the neatest way to do this comparison? I need to test if a date provided in dd/mm/yyyy format is less than a fixed date, e.g 01/05/2009 - I know I can convert

Answer 1

if you want to improve your code, I would suggest you to use DateTime class. It's been introduced in php 5.2.0 (so, it still might not be supported on all servers)

in php 5.3.0 you can write something like this:

$d1 = DateTime::createFromFormat('d/m/Y', '02/03/2009');
$d2 = DateTime::createFromFormat('d/m/Y', '02/05/2009');
$interval = $d1->diff($d2);
echo $interval->format('%R%d days');