How to compare current year with an integer field in Rules?

Question

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.

Answer 1

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").