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Title : Simple function to check if a given date falls within a given time span.
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Dave Silvia
Date : Oct 13th 2006
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Code contains a fully functional illustrative example.
Useful for determining, say, if a date a user has entered falls during your vacation?;)

DateSpan.php
<?php
/*
(c) 2006, D.E. Silvia, All rights reserved.
This code is available for use for non-commercial purposes.
Free to distribute as long as this copyright information remains intact.
No modification is authorized.  Please, refer bugs/enhancements to
dsilvia@mchsi.com

Simple function to check if a given date falls within a given time span.

Arguments are arrays of the form array(dayNum,monthNum,yearNum) as recognized
by the standard php function mktime().
*/

function dateBetween($start,$end,$theDate)
{
   
$startES=dateAryEStime($start);
   
$endES=dateAryEStime($end);
   
$findES=dateAryEStime($theDate);
    return (
$startES <= $findES && $findES <= $endES);
}

function
dateAryEStime($theDate)
{
    return
dateEStime($theDate[0],$theDate[1],$theDate[2]);
}

function
dateEStime($theDay,$theMonth,$theYear)
{
    return
mktime(0,0,0,$theMonth,$theDay,$theYear);
}
?>



Usage Example

A simple illustrator to show how the functions are used.

btw, ES|es stands for 'Epoch Seconds'


<?php
include_once('DateSpan.php');
$startDate=array(1,1,2006);
$endDate=array(1,1,2007);
$find[0]=array(1,8,2007);
$find[1]=array(4,8,2006);
$esTime1=dateAryEStime($startDate);
$esTime2=dateAryEStime($endDate);
$date1=date("M-d-Y",$esTime1);
$date2=date("M-d-Y",$esTime2);

for(
$i=0; $i < 2; $i++)
{
   
$date3=date("M-d-Y",dateAryEStime($find[$i]));
    if(
dateBetween($startDate,$endDate,$find[$i]))
    {
        print(
"$date3 falls between $date1 and $date2 (inclusive)<br />");
    }
    else
    {
        print(
"$date3 falls outside $date1 and $date2 (inclusive)<br />");
    }
}
?>



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