PHP Date validation. 1

[netbuster91]

Hello everyone,
I'm a fairly novice programmer and I’ve been doing some PHP pages. I'm struggling to find code that suits my purpose that I can understand, most of it seems far to convoluted for what I need.

I'm using a JavaScript calendar which auto fills a textbox in the format yyyy-mm-dd.
All i wish to do is to take this date and ensure it is not in the past.

If anyone could offer me some advice or code snippets I would be very grateful!

 

[jpadie]

$date = "yyyy-mm-dd";
if (time() > strtotime($date)){
 echo "date in the past";
}

 

[netbuster91]

That seems like a very sensible solution, thank you very much!
I will test it tomorrow and post the results.

 

[netbuster91]

That works excellently,
Thanks