PHP strtotime issue, causing error

Question

if(!empty($maintenance_options['disable'])) {
    $currentDate = date("Y-m-d H:i:s", strtotime(date("Y-m-d") . date("H:i:s")));
    $nodate = $maintenance_options['disable'], strtotime(date("Y-m-d") . date("H:i:s"));

    if($currentDate > $nodate) {
        echo 'if';
    } else {
        echo 'else';
    }
}

I have this weird error:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ',' on line 53

Line 53 is

$nodate = $maintenance_options['disable'], strtotime(date("Y-m-d") . date("H:i:s"));

but that line seems to be fine? What's wrong with it?

Is that line intended to be a function call? You have an extra closing parenthesis before the semicolon. — Eduardo Galván, Jul 04 '16 at 17:31
What is date("Y-m-d") . date("H:i:s") supposed to be? If you just want the current time, use time() instead of strtotime(date("Y-m-d") . date("H:i:s")) — Nick, Jul 04 '16 at 17:33
What is the comma after `maintenance_options['disable']` for? — Pieter van den Ham, Jul 04 '16 at 17:38
I'm not sure how much clearer the error message can be - you can't have a comma there in PHP. — iainn, Jul 04 '16 at 17:40
@iainn so how could I change the code but still have the same PHP results? — J. Doe, Jul 04 '16 at 17:41
@J.Doe What do you want `$nodate` to actually contain? It's hard to know how to fix the problem when all you've posted is invalid code. — iainn, Jul 04 '16 at 17:47
@iainn I want `$nodate` to output `$maintenance_options['disable']` as `Y-m-d H:i:s`. — J. Doe, Jul 04 '16 at 17:51
What is an example value for $maintenance_options['disable']? — Nick, Jul 04 '16 at 18:12

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 04 '16 at 18:19

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The question was a bit hard to understand, but I think I know what's being asked. It appears that $currentDate needs to be the current PHP time and $nodate needs to be set to the time value of $maintenance_options['disable']. If this is true, the following code should work.

$currentDate = time();
$nodate = strtotime($maintenance_options['disable']);

answered Jul 04 '16 at 18:19

Nick

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that works, thank you. I was thinking too difficult – J. Doe Jul 04 '16 at 18:26

PHP strtotime issue, causing error

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