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I would like to compare the current year with an integer field (let's say a "year of subscription" field) using Rules (if the field value is lower than the current year, the user has no access to a specific action on the website).

I have tried many different things, data comparison, text comparison, PHP custom etc. but I did not manage to create this "apparently" simple condition.

I guess I am missing something (a date/time comparison somewhere? the right PHP code to extract the year of the current date? echo date('YY')? strtotime? mktime?).

Could anyone help me? Thanks in advance.

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Add the rule as follows:

  1. Event

    Your event

  2. Conditions:

    a. Entity has field

    -> Data Selector = node

    -> Field Value = your date field (mine is field_bp_year)

    b. Execute custom PHP code

    -> Value =

    return intval([node:field-bp-year]) < intval(date("Y"));

    where you add the replacement pattern for your date field (mine was field-bp-year)

  3. Actions:

    Your action

NOTE: I treated my year as four digits. If you only want 2 digits then use date("y").

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  • It works for me, thanks for the quick answer. Last thing : if I need Y-1, what would be the PHP syntax?
    – Toki
    Apr 21, 2016 at 14:29
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    I always hesitate to use PHP in rules conditions, mostly because I wonder if it has any type of potential securty issues. Any idea about that? Apr 21, 2016 at 15:20

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