php check if date is in between 2 dates

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Thought I should share this with you.

I had a problem where I had to check if a date exists between a given date range.

I searched PHP API and did not find a suitable out of the box function which can assist me with this problem so I thought to write one.

Here is what my approach was

So we got three dates

1. Start Date
2. End Date
3. User Date => this should be in between Start Date and End Date

Function

function isDateInRange($startDate, $endDate, $userDate)
   {
    $startT = strtotime($startDate);
    $endT = strtotime($endDate);
    $userT = strtotime($userDate);
    return (($userT >= $startT) && ($userT <= $endT));

Use above function as shown below

echo isDateInRange('2011-12-01','2011-12-31','2011-12-30');
    // above will result in true
    echo isDateInRange('2011-12-01','2011-12-31','2012-02-20');
    // above will result in false

I hope this helps

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