相等的字符串在php上不相等

Question

Hi guys hope you can help me, I'm trying to compare two strings but I get the same result always "diferent" even when the string are equal.

here is the code:

$date = $row["day"];

var_dump($date);
var_dump($today);

if ($date != $today) {
    echo "<br>diferent";
} else {
    echo "<br>equals";
}

the var_dump for the two strings shows this:

string(10) "03/30/2019" this corresponds to $date

string(309) "03/30/2019" this corresponds to $today

As you can see both strings contain the same info but one has 10 chars and the other one 309 why is this happening? is there a way to fix it and prove they are equal?

I use JavaScript to set $today 's value so this might be the issue?

Answer 1

You can try to trim the two strings, that way any extra characters should be removed.

if (trim($date) != trim($today)) {

Or you can use strpos to see if $date is in $today.

if(strpos($today, $date) !== false){
    echo "<br>equals";
}else{
    echo "<br>diferent";
}

Answer 2

Dear Please see below code, need to convert both format code please follow below code

$date = $row["day"];
$date=date('m/d/Y',strtotime($date));
$today=date('m/d/Y',strtotime($today));
var_dump($date);
var_dump($today);
if ($date != $today) {
echo "<br>diferent";
} else {
echo "<br>equals";
}

This will work properly.