PHP将当前日期与给定日期进行比较

Question

I am having a hard time getting a simple date check to work properly. I searched all the questions, and so far none of the solutions have helped me.

I want to do a loop from a certain date, until today.

What is currently happening with the below code is that its not stopping and just keeps going. When I log i, I can see the date is increasing by a day like it should. I also tried flipping the operator to <, but that caused the loop to be skipped entirely.

Any ideas?

$startOfPlayoffs = new DateTime( "2016-04-29" );
$today = date("Y-m-d");

        for($i = $startOfPlayoffs; $i >= $today; $i->modify('+1 day'))
        {
         //... some stuff
        }

Interestingly, when I hard-code the date, it works fine. I.E:

$endOfPlayoffs  = new DateTime( "2016-05-02" );

That isn't ideal, so was hoping to get it to work properly.

Answer 1

You are comparing a PHP Date object ($startOfPlayoffs) with a string ($today). Try converting $today into a Date object:

$startOfPlayoffs = new DateTime("2016-04-29");
$today = new DateTime();
$cpt = 0;
for($i = $startOfPlayoffs; $i <= $today; $i->modify('+1 day')){
    echo time($i) . "<br>";
    if ($cpt++ >= 100) exit;// as a safeguard
}