title: PHP: Date larger than current date
body: <p>I have this code:</p>
  
  <pre><code>$curdate = '22-02-2011';
  
  $mydate = '10-10-2011';                     
  
  if($curdate &gt; $mydate)
  {
      echo '&lt;span class="status expired"&gt;Expired&lt;/span&gt;';
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>This would echo expired BUT shouldn't because $mydate is in the future and therefore smaller than the $curdate but PHP is looking at JUST the first two numbers 22 and 10 instead of the whole string. How can I fix this?</p>
  
  <p>Thanks</p>