Date issues...

[Scoodo]

Hiya guys, I need a little bit of help.

I'm running a small script that takes a string from a database and then I'm trying to compare it to the server date, to see if it's in the future or past. I've managed this amount in my coding but I'm a bit stump on how to highlight if it's one week away etc.. E.g. I'm building a system for highlight stock being out of date, and I need to be able to give a weeks notice in the system, so I need to compare the date to the current server time and add like 7 days.. then will it be out of date.. etc.

Here's what I have, if anyone can help that'd be great.

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                               <td style="font-size:11px"><?php echo $row['Purchase_Date']; ?></td>
            <?php $sbd=$row['Sell_By_Date'];
            if (strtotime($sbd) < time())
            echo
            '<td style="font-size:11px; background-color:#FF6666; font-weight:bold">
            OUT OF DATE
            </td>';
            else if (strtotime($sbd) > time())
            echo
            '<td style="font-size:11px">'
            .$sbd.'
            </td>';
            ?>


Note: If you look closely, I've set the output as OUT OF DATE and changed the cell colour if the product is out of date.

[MeroD]

Try:

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$sbd = date('Y-m-d', strtotime($row['Sell_By_Date']));
$notice = strtotime('-7 day', $sbd);

if (( $notice < time() ) && ( $sbd > time() )) {
  // About to expire...
}
elseif ( $sbd < time() ) {
 // Expired!               
} 
else {
  // Print SellbyDate...
}
 

[Scoodo]

Thanks MeroD, I can see where you're going with that answer, however I'm experiencing something that seems more difficult to overcome due to your answer. I get the following on the output page..

SCREAM: Error suppression ignored for
( ! ) Notice: A non well formed numeric value encountered in C:\wamp\www\ShopKontrols\Stock_Report2.php on line 54

Now I'm wondering if this is due to the Sell_By_Date being stored as a "Date" type in the database structure. (The error is requesting a numeric value). I'm guessing though. Any further help would be great.

[MeroD]

You are correct. The old date() function and strtotime can be pretty stuck up at times, and are not considered good practice (according to stackoverflow anyway).

It is recommended to use either the new DateTime functions, or using MySQL's UNIX_TIMESTAMP() function.
SELECT UNIX_TIMESTAMP(timestamp) FROM sometable

The result will be a standard integer Unix timestamp, so you can do a direct comparison to time().