Highlight all dates from now until 2 weeks later

Question

I have a script where i have a table that contains dates for supplies. Now there are alot of dates +- 600. Now what i want to do is to highligt all dates that will expire fr

Answer 1

Assuming you are using PHP 5.3 > , you can use diff to get the day difference between your date and +2 weeks and then decide if to apply the css class to the <td> or not.

Example:

// get two weeks from now
$date_in_two_weeks = strtotime('+2 weeks');
$date_in_two_weeks = date("Y/m/d",$date_in_two_weeks);

// get the date to compare, from db or whatever you want
$date_to_compare = "2014/02/01";

// compare the date in your list to now + 2 weeks and then put the date difference into $days_difference
$date_from_list = new DateTime($date_to_compare);
$date_in_two_weeks = new DateTime($date_in_two_weeks);
$days_difference = $date_from_list->diff($date_in_two_weeks);

if ($days_difference->days > 14) {
    $highlight_css_class = "highlight";
} else {
    $highlight_css_class = "";
}

Now in your table, apply css class to the <td> or wherever you want it.

<tr>
    <td>A1</td>
    <td>hamburger</td>
    <td class="<?php echo $highlight_css_class;?>">2014-02-10</td>
</tr>

Of course in CSS create the .highlight class with the styling you want.

.highlight { 
    background:#e1e1e1;
}