为什么php的行为与我明确设置值时的行为不一样？

Question

I have tried the same code both ways, it works the first way, when I do it the second way, it doesn't error, but just appears to do nothing.

I'm getting some values (two dates) in a View in Drupal. I can print the values and get EXACTLY the same values as I have set explicitly. I've tested this using print.

Although the values using print are identical to those i've set explicitly, it's not working with the data pulled from Drupal.

Example of printing:

$fields['field_deal_from_value']->content;

//The result from this is that it prints the following:

2011-04-24

Version 1 - Working with explicitly set value

<?php
$pastDateStr = "2011-04-24"; 
$pastDateTS = strtotime($pastDateStr); 

for ($currentDateTS = $pastDateTS; $currentDateTS <= strtotime("2011-05-28");$currentDateTS += (60 * 60 * 24)) { 
// use date() and $currentDateTS to format the dates in between 
$currentDateStr=date("d-m-Y",$currentDateTS); 
print $currentDateStr."<br/>"; 
}
?>

Version 2 - Not Working - Values are definitely set correctly

<?php
$pastDateStr = $fields['field_deal_from_value']->content; 
$pastDateTS = strtotime($pastDateStr); 

for ($currentDateTS = $pastDateTS; $currentDateTS <= strtotime($fields['field_deal_to_value']->content); $currentDateTS += (60 * 60 * 24)) { 
// use date() and $currentDateTS to format the dates in between 
$currentDateStr=date("d-m-Y",$currentDateTS); 
print $currentDateStr."<br/>"; 
}
?>

Answer 1

You should turn error reporting all the way so you can see warnings.
I suspect you'll see an error saying that the result of $fields['..']->content cannot be used in a write context (ie as the argument of strtotime).
I'd try to save the value of $fields['..']->content in a variable and use that variable in the loop's condition.