Filtering upcoming/past dates not working properly

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1

On a page displaying events I filtered the events into upcoming and past events:

controller:

  $upcoming = $events->filter(function ($child) {
    return $child->date()->toDate() > time();
  })

 $past = $events->filter(function ($child) {
    return $child->date()->toDate() < time();
  })

But here comes the problem: The events get moved to the “past” section before the date is over. Big Problem: Tonight’s event is already marked as “past” right now. Yesterday it was still upcoming but today it has moved to past!

What can I do? Help! (my client is going nuts right now!)

2

The problem is that you compare tUnix timestamps rather than day based dates. Also, consider using >= instead of >.

3

I used >= for the upcoming events and my event is still marked as past. I also tried to do a new “today” section like this

$today = $events->filter(function ($child) {
  return $child->date()->toDate() == time();
})

but the event is still set as past. I even tried DateTime() instead of time() and then my site crashed.
I’m using the strftime date handler.

What else can I try?

4

If you want to compare day (Y-m-d) based, I would use strtotime('today') to get start of today always:

// upcoming
return $child->date()->toDate() > strtotime('today');

// past
return $child->date()->toDate() < strtotime('today');
5

Yes, that did it! Thank you!