is it possible to compare 2 dates?

[fukchai2000]

we have this 2 different dates,
$a = 2004 - 12 - 12 and $b = 2004 - 12 - 30

is possible for us in php to do:
if ($a < $b) // possible to do this?
{}

thanks

[mincklerstraat]

You know, if you use 0 to make two-digit day and month numbers, it *might* just work like this without doing anything special. Otherwise, you'll have to check out the various date & time functions - [php.net...] . See if you can get the timestamp out of them with

strtotime()

, and compare timestamps.