Compare given date with today

strtotime($var);

Turns it into a time value

time() - strtotime($var);

Gives you the seconds since $var

if((time()-(60*60*24)) < strtotime($var))

Will check if $var has been within the last day.

That format is perfectly appropriate for a standard string comparison e.g.

if ($date1 > $date2){
  //Action
}

To get today's date in that format, simply use: date("Y-m-d H:i:s").

So:

$today = date("Y-m-d H:i:s");
$date = "2010-01-21 00:00:00";

if ($date < $today) {}

That's the beauty of that format: it orders nicely. Of course, that may be less efficient, depending on your exact circumstances, but it might also be a whole lot more convenient and lead to more maintainable code - we'd need to know more to truly make that judgement call.

For the correct timezone, you can use, for example,

date_default_timezone_set('America/New_York');

Click here to refer to the available PHP Timezones.

Here you go:

function isToday($time) // midnight second
{
    return (strtotime($time) === strtotime('today'));
}

isToday('2010-01-22 00:00:00.0'); // true

Also, some more helper functions:

function isPast($time)
{
    return (strtotime($time) < time());
}

function isFuture($time)
{
    return (strtotime($time) > time());
}

Some given answers don't have in consideration the current day!

Here it is my proposal.

$var = "2010-01-21 00:00:00.0"
$given_date = new \DateTime($var);

if ($given_date == new \DateTime('today')) {
  //today
}

if ($given_date < new \DateTime('today')) {
  //past
}

if ($given_date > new \DateTime('today')) {
  //future
}

Compare date time objects:

(I picked 10 days - Anything older than 10 days is "OLD", else "NEW")

$now   = new DateTime();
$yourdate = new DateTime("2021-08-24");
$diff=date_diff($yourdate,$now);
$diff_days = $diff->format("%a");
if($diff_days > 10){
    echo "OLD! " . $yourdate->format('m/d/Y');
}else{
    echo "NEW! " . $yourdate->format('m/d/Y');
}

If you do things with time and dates Carbon is you best friend;

Install the package then:

$theDay = Carbon::make("2010-01-21 00:00:00.0");

$theDay->isToday();
$theDay->isPast();
$theDay->isFuture();
if($theDay->lt(Carbon::today()) || $theDay->gt(Carbon::today()))

lt = less than, gt = greater than

As in the question:

$theDay->gt(Carbon::today()) ? true : false;

and much more;

Try this:

if (date("Y-m-d",strtotime($funding_dt)) >= date("Y-m-d",strtotime('31-01-2007')))
{
    echo "ok";
} else {
    echo "not";
}