note 104001 modified in datetime.diff by danbrown
| From: | danbrown@php.net | Date: | Tue, 17 May 2011 14:23:17 +0000 |
| Subject: | note 104001 modified in datetime.diff by danbrown | ||
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I was looking for a way to output X number of days from a given date and didn't find exactly
what I was looking for. But I got this working. I hope this helps you.
This will output the number of days,months, or years difference between NOW and a April 1st, 2011.
<?php
$date1 = new DateTime('2011-04-01');
$date2 = new DateTime("now");
$interval = $date1->diff($date2);
$years = $interval->format('%y');
$months = $interval->format('%m');
$days = $interval->format('%d');
if($years!=0){
$ago = $years.' year(s) ago';
}else{
$ago = ($months == 0 ? $days.' day(s) ago' : $months.' month(s) ago');
}
echo $ago;
?>
If I used today, 2011-05-16 as $date1, I could return all 0's in the format. For example....
<?php
$date1 = new DateTime('2011-05-161');
$date2 = new DateTime("now");
$interval = $date1->diff($date2);
$diff = $interval->format('%y-%m-%d');
echo $diff; //Today, this will output 0-0-0
?>
--was--
I was looking for a way to output X number of days from a given date and didn't find exactly
what I was looking for. But I got this working. I hope this helps you.
This will output the number of days,months, or years difference between NOW and a April 1st, 2011.
$date1 = new DateTime('2011-04-01');
$date2 = new DateTime("now");
$interval = $date1->diff($date2);
$years = $interval->format('%y');
$months = $interval->format('%m');
$days = $interval->format('%d');
if($years!=0){
$ago = $years.' year(s) ago';
}else{
$ago = ($months == 0 ? $days.' day(s) ago' : $months.' month(s) ago');
}
echo $ago;
If I used today, 2011-05-16 as $date1, I could return all 0's in the format. For example....
$date1 = new DateTime('2011-05-161');
$date2 = new DateTime("now");
$interval = $date1->diff($date2);
$diff = $interval->format('%y-%m-%d');
echo $diff; //Today, this will output 0-0-0
http://php.net/manual/en/datetime.diff.php