Compare two dates in smarty

Question

I have two dates in respective format (02-Dec-14 and 17-Dec-14 ) and i want to compare these two dates in smarty.

How can i compare these two dates ? please help.

Thanks In Advance

Answer 1

If you have those dates assigned to Smarty for example this way:

$smarty->assign('date2','02-Dec-14');
$smarty->assign('date1','17-Dec-14');

you can use strtotime function directly in Smarty, for example:

{if $date1|strtotime < $date2|strtotime}
    {$date1} is earlier than {$date2}
{elseif $date1|strtotime == $date2|strtotime}
    Both dates are the same
{else}
    {$date2} is earlier than {$date1}
{/if}