Re: Difference between 2 Dates

Again the solution is to convert the dates into timestamps for easy comparison. In your case you can use the strtotime() function. I believe that yyyy-mm-dd is a standard date format that the function will recognize, is it not? $ts1 = strtotime($date1); $ts2 = strtotime($date2); if ($ts1 > $ts2) { // .. blah blah blah. } -Kevin ----- Original Message ----- From: "Colin Bossen" <cbossen@mindspring.com> To: "vernon" <vernon@comp-wiz.com> Cc: <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Friday, December 13, 2002 2:50 PM Subject: Re: [PHP] Difference between 2 Dates > I have a similar problem. I am trying to figure out which of two dates > is greater. Both are in the yyyy-mm-dd format. Is there any easy > function that allows this sort of comparison or am I missing something? > > > On Friday, December 13, 2002, at 01:43 PM, vernon wrote: > > > I found this code on the php.net web site but am new to php and can't > > figure > > out how to dispaly the difference once calucuated. Belowis the code I'm > > using: > > > > # --- Date Difference --- > > #Date 1 from MySQL database recordset row > > $date1 = $row_rsMESSAGES['privmsgs_date']; > > #Date 2 - now > > $date2 = date("ymd H:is"); > > > > #function > > function date_diff($date1, $date2) { > > $s = strtotime($date2)-strtotime($date1); > > $d = intval($s/86400); > > $s -= $d*86400; > > $h = intval($s/3600); > > $s -= $h*3600; > > $m = intval($s/60); > > $s -= $m*60; > > return > > array("d"=>$d,"h"=>$h,"m"=>$m,"s"=>$s); > > } > > > > #what I thought would dispaly the diffence but returns and error. > > echo date_diff("$m, $d, $h, $m"); > > > > > > Thanks > > > > > > > > -- > > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >