note 91721 added to function.date

After searching and searching for a working DateDiff function that actually calculated the difference between two dates AND times, I finally came up with my own which I used a lot of different ideas from around the web, but this works for calculating the difference between two dates and times, and put the output into something readable. <?php #2DateTimeDiff Script by Kyle Perkins #kyperkins@shadowdev.com #06/23/09 #START #$date2 must be in Y-m-d-H-i-s format for this to work (concatinate if you need to) #get the numbers in their own variables $now_date=date("Y-m-d-H-i-s"); list($now_year, $now_month, $now_day, $now_hour, $now_minute, $now_second) = explode("-",$now_date); list($date2_year, $date2_month, $date2_day, $date2_hour, $date2_minute, $date2_second) = explode("-",$date2_date); #get the two dates and times in Unix Timestamp format $now=time(); $ends=mktime($date2_hour, $date2_minute, $date2_second, $date2_month, $date2_day, $date2_year); #do the calculations and get the difference $diff_time=$ends-$now; #put the difference into a nice readable format $diff_time_nice=date("Y-n-j-G-i-s", $diff_time); $diff_t=explode("-", $diff_time_nice); list($difference_year, $difference_month, $difference_day, $difference_hour, $difference_minute, $difference_second) = $diff_t; #error trap for 1970 UNIX Timestamp issue $difference_year=1970-$difference_year; #fix the "05 Minutes" issue, where the minute indicator has a 0. We don't want a 0 if ($difference_minute[0]=="0") $difference_minute=substr($difference_minute, 1); #simple function: adds an "s" if there is more than 1 ### left function finds($time){ global $diff; if ($time>1) $diff.= "s"; } #concatinate to the $diff variable for the time remaning if ($difference_year){ $diff= "$difference_year year"; finds($difference_year); } if ($difference_month){ $diff.= ", $difference_month month"; finds($difference_month); } if ($difference_day) { $diff.= ", $difference_day day"; finds($difference_day); } if ($difference_hour) { $diff.= ", $difference_hour hour"; finds($difference_hour); } if ($difference_minute) { $diff.= ", $difference_minute minute"; finds($difference_minute); } if ($difference_second) { $diff.= ", $difference_second second"; finds($difference_second); } if ($diff[0]==",") $diff=substr($diff, 2); #echo the result echo "$diff"; #echos something like "3 years, 2 months, 1 day, 3 hours, 2 minutes, 1 second". The rest is up to you ?> ---- Server IP: 208.69.120.35 Probable Submitter: 72.71.126.221 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.date.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/91721 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/91721/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/91721/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/91721/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/91721/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/91721/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/91721/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/91721 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/91721 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php