Check if the time is past 9pm using PHP

Question

What I am trying to do is I have a selected date formatted as below:

$selectedDate = 2010/02/24 

I want to check it is both todays date and it is past 9pm on the server and set a value if it is.

I can get a time by using the following:

$checkTime = date("H:i");

I want to create something like:

if ($checkTime > 21:00 && $selectedDate == date("Y/m/d")) { //do my stuff }

But a bit unsure of the syntex.

Many thanks for any help

Answer 1

$checkDate = '2010-02-24';
$checkTime = '2100';

if( date( 'Y-m-d' ) == $checkDate && date( 'Hi' ) >= $checkTime ) {
    // Do something clever
}

Note the use of Hi as the date format string, which allows for a numerical comparison.