note 60386 added to function.date

I've noticed many ways to calculate the actual age of a person, and many used long algorithms or many functions and operations, which for a community webpage, using those functions, hundred and thousand times per minute isn't quite desired. So I came up with this optimised algorithm, which will take a mysql formatted date and calculate the exact age. (just making it a timestamp, substracting and then dividing by 365*24*60*60 isn't enough, because there are leap years, so at a given point your display would be erroneous by one or two days, depending on the number of leap years in the interval). function getage($_date) //YYYY-MM-DD (mysql format) { $_timestamp = strtotime($_date); $_years = date("Y")-date("Y",$_timestamp); if( date("md",$_timestamp) > date("md") ) return ($_years - 1); else return $_years; } Also if you wish, for coding standard purposes, you can use intval(date("md")) or date("nd") but the way above works too. I've used date("md") to get a number which grows exactly as the unix timestamp, by date. This way, there is no need to extract each day or month and make an individual comparison. Good luck. ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.date.php Edit -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+60386 Delete: added to the manual -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+60386&report=yes&reason=added+to+the+manual Delete: bad code -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+60386&report=yes&reason=bad+code Delete: spam -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+60386&report=yes&reason=spam Delete: useless -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+60386&report=yes&reason=useless Delete: non-english -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+60386&report=yes&reason=non-english Delete: already in docs -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+60386&report=yes&reason=already+in+docs Delete: other reasons -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+60386&report=yes Reject -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+60386&report=yes Search -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php