note 100471 deleted from datetime.diff by danbrown

Note Submitter: enobrev at gmail dot com ---- A modification of Dennis C's post on May 10th, 2010. This allows you to set the interval you're looking for as well as returns a positive or negative according to whether the 2nd date is greater than the first. /** * modified from http://www.php.net/manual/en/datetime.diff.php#97810 * @param DateTime $oDate1 * @param DateTime $oDate2 * @param string $sInterval (second, minute, hour, day, week, month, year) * @return int */ function date_diff_interval(DateTime $oDate1, DateTime $oDate2, $sInterval) { $iCount = 0; switch (true) { case $oDate1 < $oDate2: while($oDate1 < $oDate2){ $oDate1->modify('+1 ' . $sInterval); $iCount++; } break; case $oDate1 > $oDate2: while($oDate1 > $oDate2){ $oDate1->modify('-1 ' . $sInterval); $iCount--; } break; } return $iCount; }