note 6969 deleted from function.date by jimw

SOLUTION: Calculate the day difference between 2 dates A few people have been asking about this so i'll share my solution: I have some dates stored in a MySQL database in the format 'yyyy-mm-dd' I wanted to find the difference between those dates and the current date in whole days. Note: you could calculate the difference in months just as easily. // Routine to display the difference between two dates // Date stored in the MySQL database as yyyy-mm-dd $today=date("Y-m-d 00:00"); $date1=strtotime( "2000-07-22 00:00" ); // The date value [2000-07-23] here would be the retrieved mysql string $date2=strtotime($today); echo "Difference: ".(($date2-$date1)/86400); // Prints number of days difference Other notes added to the PHP manual have helped me a lot, so i thought i'd do my part :-)