RE: [PHP] calculate length between date to date
| From: | Jason Murray | Date: | Mon, 23 Apr 2001 04:28:48 +0000 |
| Subject: | RE: [PHP] calculate length between date to date | ||
| Groups: | php.general | ||
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> I have 2 variables here that store date start and date end, I
> want to compare the lenght between the start date and the end
> date, how would I do that?
> $dateStart = "$year" . "$mon" . "$date" ; ( for instance, it
> will return "20010102")
> $dateEnd = "$yearEnd" . "$monEnd" . "$dateEnd" ; ( for
> instance, it will return "20010201")
>
> How do I calculate the length between those 2 variables?
<?
$startunix = mktime(0, 0, 0, $month, $date, $year);
$endunix = mktime(0, 0, 0, $monthEnd, $dateEnd, $yearEnd);
$difference = $endunix - $startunix;
?>
$difference now holds the number of seconds between those dates,
which you can use to find out how far apart they are.
Jason