how to check if today is between two dates in Twig?

Question

I'd like to check if today's date is between two dates from the database. Here's my code.

{% if today < room.price_start_date and today > room.price_end_date %}
<a href="{{'/'|app}}/book/{{room.id}}"><button type="button" class="btn btn-default btn-xs">Book this room</button></a>
{% else %}
<a href="{{'/'|app}}/contact"><button type="button" class="btn btn-default btn-xs">Book this room</button></a>
{% endif %}

The today variable gets its value from this code:

$todayDate = date('Y-m-d');
$this['today'] = date('Y-m-d', strtotime($todayDate));

The price_start_date and price_end_date I get them from database and their columns' type is Date

Any idea how to check if today is between room.price_start_date and room.price_end_date in Twig?

Polysaccharide

Answer 1

According to the TWIG manual, you can use date function. If no argument is passed, the function returns the current date.

So your code might look like this in TWIG:

{% if date(room.price_start_date) < date() and date(room.price_end_date) > date() %}
  {# condition met #}
{% endif %}

Subsellium

Actually I changed the comparison signs to ` {% if date(room.price_start_date) < date() and date(room.price_end_date) > date() %} ` and worked. Many Thanks ! – Polysaccharide

@AhmedEssam, thanks, you are right, I updated the comparison signs the right way. Feel free to accept the answer, and hope it helps to someone else as well! – Subsellium

This will only work if both start and end are set. If any of those are "open" or null wont work correctly. – Androcles

Answer 2

Use \DateTime instances to compare dates in Twig (as well as PHP).

What is wrong?

date('Y-m-d') function returns a formatted date string.

So, you should to change it to $today = new \DateTime('today'); and pass this instance to Twig template or use date() Twig function directly in your condition.

The price_start_date and price_end_date I get them from database and their columns' type is Date.

Assuming that these two (room.price_start_date and room.price_end_date) are instances of \DateTime, then your Twig code should work fine.

Hajj

It should be noted that YYYY-MM-DD date strings (date('Y-m-d')) are correctly comparable in PHP 3v4l.org/bCfZv and twig twigfiddle.com/opjcw8 – Gump

Answer 3

Try the date function: http://twig.sensiolabs.org/doc/functions/date.html

You might have to change your code a bit, so I can't advise best.

EDIT #2

Sorry I didn't have a chance to look over the docs on the Twig date function, but it's good that @Yonel and @Farside did. @Yonel's points are the ones that I was concerned with, and didn't have time to give a good answer.

If you are using \DateTime, then this would be your code changes:

{% if date() < date(room.price_start_date) and date() > date(room.price_end_date) %}
    <a href="{{'/'|app}}/book/{{room.id}}">
    <button type="button" class="btn btn-default btn-xs">Book this room</button></a>
{% else %}
    <a href="{{'/'|app}}/contact">
    <button type="button" class="btn btn-default btn-xs">Book this room</button></a>
{% endif %}

I improved the formatting too. I presume you are just checking that the user can click book a room within that timeframe. And your code looks good.

You could add {{ dump(room.price_start_date) }} and so on in the DEV environment to debug what your actual dates look like as a troubleshooting technique.

Dudeen

Answer 4

For open dates solution consider extending @Farside solution a bit as follows:

    {% if ( date(room.price_start_date) is null or date(room.price_start_date) < date())  and   
          ( date(room.price_end_date)   is null or date(room.price_end_date)   > date()) %}

      {# condition met #}

    {% endif %}

Also take into account that if neither start or end is set it will consider everything inside the range.

Androcles

Answer 5

To simplify, use this:

{% if start_date <= check_date and check_date <= end_date %}<br>
     ... your code<br>
{% else %}<br>
     ... your code<br>
{% endif %}

Freedman