Hi Guys,
My knowledge of the PHP date function is useless i just cant get to grips with it..
So if anyone can help with an example or a working way that would be great..

I have a script that has a date stamp like $datetime = "Jun 25 15:40:54"


How can i check this against the system time and only do stuff if its in the last 2 minutes?

Ie:

if ($datetime "is in the last 2 minutes") {
do stuff;
}

Info: Its a linux server if that helps.



Any help here would be great.

Thanks
G

personally, either use a seperate variable for this purpose (eithe just the min and sec values or a unix timestamp.

Alternativley,

explode() the :'s and use the last two parts of the array, i.e. the min and sec portions.

Someone has come up with the idea of:

<?php
$datetime = "Jun 25 15:40:54";
$now = time();
$now_minus2 = $now - 120;
$now_plus2 = $now + 120;
$comp = strtotime($datetime);
if ($comp >= $now_minus2 && $comp <= $now_plus2) {
echo "$datetime is within range<br>\n";
} else {
echo "not within range<br>\n";
}
?>


It seems to work, Maybe someone here knows how to make this cleaner?


Thanks
G

Do you have a db at hand?
They excel at that work. You could just send a query that returns 1 or 0 if the difference between now() and a date is less than 2 minutes

PHP Code:

<?php
$datetime = "Jun 25 15:40:54";
$tstamp = strtotime($datetime);
$fullDate=strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S',$comp);  //output "2010-06-25 15:40:54"
$query="select passed=case when TIMESTAMPDIFF(minute, '$fullDate', now())<=2 then 0 else 1 end;"
$res=mysql_query($query);
while($o=mysql_fetch_object($res)){
    if($o->passed==1){
        //2 minutes have passed
    }
}

I do

Thanks for the re-worked version. At least i have 2 options now

Thanks again.

-G

Originally Posted by lynxus

Someone has come up with the idea of:
It seems to work, Maybe someone here knows how to make this cleaner?

That's really close to a script I put together that was supposed to show recently registered users. Ugly maybe, but if its any consolation it seems to work pretty well.