PHP check if date between two dates

Question

I got this code from Stackoverflow and changed it slightly to work with today's date.

I want to check if today fits between two dates. But this is not working. What am I missing?

$paymentDate = date('d/m/Y');
echo $paymentDate; // echos today! 
$contractDateBegin = date('d/m/Y', '01/01/2001');
$contractDateEnd = date('d/m/Y', '01/01/2015');

if ($paymentDate > $contractDateBegin && $paymentDate < $contractDateEnd)
{
  echo "is between";
}
else
{
echo "NO GO!";  
}

Answer 1

Edit: use <= or >= to count today's date.

This is the right answer for your code. Just use the strtotime() php function.

$paymentDate = date('Y-m-d');
$paymentDate=date('Y-m-d', strtotime($paymentDate));
//echo $paymentDate; // echos today! 
$contractDateBegin = date('Y-m-d', strtotime("01/01/2001"));
$contractDateEnd = date('Y-m-d', strtotime("01/01/2012"));
    
if (($paymentDate >= $contractDateBegin) && ($paymentDate <= $contractDateEnd)){
    echo "is between";
}else{
    echo "NO GO!";  
}