Converting to date type

[seetz10]

Hi

I have 3 dropdown menus for the date. One for the day, one for the month
and one for the year. I am passing these as variables by using:

$fday = $_POST["fromdate"]["mday"];
$fmonth = $_POST["fromdate"]["mon"];
$fyear = $_POST["fromdate"]["year"];

$tday = $_POST["todate"]["mday"];
$tmonth = $_POST["todate"]["mon"];
$tyear = $_POST["todate"]["year"]; 

however, these are strings. I want to be able to make

$fday and $fmonth and $fyear

into a date type and then be able to
make date comparisons with


$tday and $tmonth and $tyear

Is there a way that I can do this. The way I have tried is by casting the 3
variables into int. And then concatenating them. But I am getting problems
with it. There must be an easier way.

Can anyone help me please?

[sad69]

I think you'd want to use the strtotime() function:

http://ca3.php.net/manual/en/function.strtotime.php

Hope that helps,
Sadiq.

[ReadMe.txt]

actually, mktime would be just as good for this purpose:

http://www.php.net/mktime