Comparing date with today date using strtotime

[Marius]

I've written following code to compare a date in a variable with today's date. If the date in a variable is greater than today's date the error message should be echoed. But it's not working properly in my case.

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$form_data['trans_date'] = '12-11-2014';  // Date to be compared with today's date in mm-dd-yyyy format
if(strtotime(date('m-d-Y')) < strtotime($form_data['trans_date'])) echo 'Error';    // if greater than today's date
else echo 'Success'; 

Actually today's date is 12-11-2014 (11th December 2014) and I'm indirectly comparing today's date with itself. So I should not get an error message since the date I'm comparing is not greater than today's date, but I'm getting the error message.
So how should I resolve this issue?

You may be meaning 11th Decemeber with 12-11-2014, but strtotime isn't seeing it that way.
If you need to use strtotime() then change the input format to m/d/Y (12/11/2014).

- On the other hand, you could use DateTime class, where you can directly compare objects:

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$submission_date = DateTime::createFromFormat('!m-d-Y', '12-11-2014');  // ! used to take the time 00:00:00 of that date
$today_date = new DateTime('today');

if($submission_date > $today_date) {
  echo 'Error - submission_date is in the future';
}
else echo 'Success';