Don't do stuff untill <time>

[Costest]

I want a page to do stuff based on if a time has passed
I had

	if (strtotime($rs["banstops"]) > strtotime(date("m/d/Y H:i a"))) {
              //stuff to do if time has passed
        }else{
              //keep telling them they're banned
        }

($rs has an array from mysql)

I got that code from some place, but it doesn't work very good at all. Does anyone know a better way?
I thought about having the time their ban stops be date("mdYHi") and then just compare that number with the current one, but haven't tried it yet

[Xeon06]

Well, first of all don't store time as a string. Store it a Unix timestamp, the default value that time() returns. Integers are easier to compare than strings in the first place. You could then do

if ($rs['banstops'] >= time())
    //They're not banned
else
    //They're banned

[Costest]

thank you!

[editline]08:53PM[/editline]

How can I add 6 hours to time()?

[Xeon06]

It's basically the number of seconds since January 1st 1970 (The Unix Epoch), so you add the hours in seconds:

$time = time();
$time += 60 * 60 * 6; //60 seconds in 60 minutes in 6 hours

Or you can always use [url=http://ca.php.net/manual/en/function.mktime.php]mktime[/url]:

$time = time();
$time += mktime(6); //First parameter is hours, rest is optional

[Costest]

:D Thank you so much!
I was looking at the php manual's article about time() ([url]http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.time.php[/url]) and I saw in the first example '7 * 24 * 60 * 60' to get next week (7 days * 24 hours each day * 60 minutes each day * 60 seconds each minute)

[B]Edit: [/B]Unfortunately, my web host is bad + bad wireless connection = Dreamweaver cannot connect to host 'blah blah blah'
[B]Edit: [/B]After Ctrl+S ing a ton, it finally connects :P

[editline]09:30PM[/editline]

Oh wow, I didn't notice until now that

<? date("m-d-Y H:i A",time()+mktime(6)) ?>

is giving '12-04-1912 01:23 AM' or so and I know that it's NOT 1912

[Xeon06]

Ooops, my bad, apparently it adds it to the current timestamp, which is dumb, but whatever. So all you need is:

$time = mktime(6);

Oh and in case you're wondering why you got a weird 1912 date if it adds to the timestamp, it's because the added numbers probably exceeded the limit of an integer in PHP and thus looped around.

[tjl]

Integers should never overflow in php.

[quote=http://us2.php.net/manual/en/language.types.integer.php]Integer overflow

If PHP encounters a number beyond the bounds of the integer type, it will be interpreted as a float instead. Also, an operation which results in a number beyond the bounds of the integer type will return a float instead.

<?php
$large_number =  2147483647;
var_dump($large_number);
// output: int(2147483647)

$large_number =  2147483648;
var_dump($large_number);
// output: float(2147483648)

// it's true also for hexadecimal specified integers between 2^31 and 2^32-1:
var_dump( 0xffffffff );
// output: float(4294967295)

// this doesn't go for hexadecimal specified integers above 2^32-1:
var_dump( 0x100000000 );
// output: int(2147483647)

$million = 1000000;
$large_number =  50000 * $million;
var_dump($large_number);
// output: float(50000000000)
?>

[/quote]

[Xeon06]

Ah, I stand corrected, thank you.

[dan_programn]

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