How to compare current date to article created date?

Question

I need a code to compare if current date and time is greater than article created time of joomla. I have this example code:

  function CompareDate() {  
   //            new Date(Year, Month, Date, Hr, Min, Sec);  
   var dateOne = new Date(2020, 03, 20, 11, 00, 00);  
   var dateTwo = new Date(2020, 03, 20, 12, 00, 00);  

   if (dateOne > dateTwo) {  
        alert("Date One is greater than Date Two.");  
    }else {  
        alert("Date Two is greater than Date One.");  
    }  
}  
CompareDate();  

Where I need: 'dateOne' to be the current date and time and 'dateTwo' to be the article createad date and time

Any help with this?

Answer 1

I'll assume you're using an inline script inside a PHP file. Depending on how you're fetching the creation date of the article, you may need to make some minor modifications:

// Get the creation date of the article
// This may need to be changed according to your requirements
$creationDate = $this->item->created;

Joomla\CMS\Factory::getDocument()->addScriptDeclaration('
    document.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded", function() {
        function CompareDate()
        {
            var dateOne = new Date("' . $creationDate . '");
            var dateTwo = new Date(Date.now());

            if (dateOne > dateTwo)
            {  
                alert("Date One is greater than Date Two.");
            }
            else
            {  
                alert("Date Two is greater than Date One.");
            }  
        }

        CompareDate();
    });
');

Answer 2

Resolved! This is a working php code to compare current date to article created date:

$date1 = new DateTime(); $date2 = new DateTime($article->created); if ($date1 > $date2) 
echo $date1->format("Y-m-d") . " is latest than "
        . $date2->format("Y-m-d"); else echo $date1->format("Y-m-d") . " is older than " 
        . $date2->format("Y-m-d");