Comparing month and date to current date

Question

I am trying to compare month and year values from data in a database to the current date. I am running a query to get the month and year integer values(eg: month-> 5 year-> 2017):

$data = $wpdb->get_row("SELECT month, year FROM $table WHERE id='$id'");
$month = date('m', $data->month);
$year = date('Y', $data->year);
$dateFromTable = $year.$month;

Then I want to compare them to the current month and date:

$current = date('Ym');
if((int)$dateFromTable >= (int)$current){
    //...do something
}

I am not sure how I can go about combining the month and year values from the table so I can make my compare against the current month and year. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

Something like this.

$date = DateTime::createFromFormat('mY', $data->month.$data->year);
$curdate = new DateTime(date('mY'));

$diff = $curdate->diff($date);
echo('days:' .$diff->days);
echo('months:' .$diff->m); 

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