PHP - Check date is in the past but exclude todays date

Question

I'm using the following function to check whether the date is in the past, but I want to exclude today's date from it as it returns true for today's date also.

For example, if I pass today's date 2018-03-15, it returns true when it shouldn't.

function is_date_in_past($date):bool
{
   return !empty($date) && (strtotime($date) < time());
}

Can anybody please help me with this, that how to exclude today's date from being recognised as past date?

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Use DateTime objects. They are easier to use than the old date & time functions and the code is more clear.

function is_date_in_past($date) {
    return new DateTime($date) < new DateTime("today");
}

Answer 2

If you'd like to use old date/time functions, you can do like that:

 function is_date_in_past(string $date) :bool
 {
     return !empty($date) && strtotime($date) < strtotime(date('Y-m-d'));
 }

but better to consider to use https://stackoverflow.com/a/49305230/9254020 variant