date validation gone wrong!

[nshack31]

My date/time validation was working fine when month was stored as a string (eg January), it then worked using the following....

$date_to_compar = strtotime($day.' '.$month.' '.$year.' '.$hour.':'.$minute.' '.$ampm); 
$today=time(); 
if($today > $date_to_compar) 
{ 
//do action 
} 

where day = 1 to 30, month = January to december, year = eg 2005, hour = 12hr format, minute = minutes, ampm = am OR pm

Now that I have changed month to an integer i cannot get my code to work! Can anybody help?! why did this work when month was a string but wont work now month is an integer? Im lost

Thanks!

[adb64]

When you pass e.g. the string 01 03 2005, strtotime can not determine whether you mean January 3 2005 or March 1 2005. Difference between US/EU date formats.

[nshack31]

so i can use strtotime when month is eg february but not if month is 2?

How else can I sort this problem? thanks!

..edit just tried mktime but it does not like the am pm I use which is needed because my clock is 12hr format

[adb64]

Yes, only when date in unambiguous it can determine. So 05 23 2005 will resolve to May 23 2005 as there is no 23rd month.
Maybe it helps adding a / between the date (US format) when you mean month date year or a - (EU format) when you mean date month year. I never tried this, maybe strtotime has this intelligence, but I couldn't find it anywhere in the documentation.

[nshack31]

The strtotime code im using doesnt seem to be taking time into account only The date. Im very confused, when month was a string it worked fine

[adb64]

I found a link from the PHP help page to [gnu.org...]
maybe you can try that and see if it solves your problem. Beware that month, date, hour and minute must all be two digits. So prefix the value with a 0 when < 10.

[nshack31]

I'll try that thanks!