What to use in this case?

Question

PHP

Good evening everyone. How to do this: there is some object, there is a date field, the object has three types of state "future", "current" and "past". According to the standard, the item has the state type "future".
1.How to make the state type switch to "current" and, accordingly, to "past" at a certain moment.
2. What type of date field should it be? string? or date?
3. Is it possible to do this without krone? And How?

Answer 1

1. To get the state, you need to use a method that will determine it every time
2. any option is possible, I would store it in a date
3. I don’t see why crons are here, I think it’s quite possible to do without it