Need help with a date function

[kevinkhan]

I am scraping Birthdays from a webpage that are in this format
September 15, 1987

$age = 15;
$page = source code of a html page;

so far i have made this function

How do i return the function as true if the date scaped makes the person over 15 and false if the person is younger?

PHP Code:

function checkForAge($page,$age) {
  preg_match('|Born on ([a-zA-Z]*\s[0-9]*,\s[0-9]*)\\\u003c\\\/span>|', $page, $match);
    if($match && count($match)>0) {
        echo "Match Found";
        $dateOfBirth = str_replace(",","",$match[1]);
    //    $dateOfBirth = date('d/m/Y', strtotime($dateOfBirth));
    $dateOfBirth = strtotime($dateOfBirth);
        /*

       if("date of birth makes person over $age)
         {
          return true;
         }
       else 
        {
         return false;
         }
*/

    } 


[ecco]

PHP Code:

/* get the birth year */
$birth_year = strftime("%Y", strtotime($dateOfBirth));
/* get the current year */
$current_year = strftime("%Y", strtotime("now"));

/* subtract birth_year from current_year to get age difference */
$calc_age = $current_year - $birth_year;

if($calc_age > $age){
return true;
}
else{
return false;
} 


also, remove $dateOfBirth = strtotime($dateOfBirth);

On second thought, this won't take into account the day of birth, only year. This may or may not be good enough.

[kevinkhan]

Originally Posted by ecco

PHP Code:

/* get the birth year */
$birth_year = strftime("%Y", strtotime($dateOfBirth));
/* get the current year */
$current_year = strftime("%Y", strtotime("now"));

/* subtract birth_year from current_year to get age difference */
$calc_age = $current_year - $birth_year;

if($calc_age > $age){
return true;
}
else{
return false;
} 


also, remove $dateOfBirth = strtotime($dateOfBirth);

On second thought, this won't take into account the day of birth, only year. This may or may not be good enough.

Thanks that worked