Posted by Philip Thompson on 09/26/03 11:27

On Sep 23, 2005, at 11:16 AM, Chris W. Parker wrote:

> Philip Thompson <mailto:prthomp@uark.edu>
> on Friday, September 23, 2005 9:12 AM said:
>
>> I'm needing to find the number of days between two dates without
>> using an database functions (DATE_SUB, etc)... only PHP. Is there an
>> easy way to accomplish this? I have searched the PHP site, but have
>> not been successful in finding anything that will assist me.
>>
>> Any help would be appreciated.
>>
>
> There might be an easier way but... convert to timestamp, subtract
> smaller number from bigger number, figure out how much time has
> passed.
> Chris.


I actually discovered how to do this right after I made the post. I
looked at some archives and worked this out.

<code>

// today - 9/23/05
$start = mktime(0, 0, 0, date("m"), date("d"), date("Y"));

// the objective day - 3/15/06
$end = mktime(0, 0, 0, 3, 15, 2006);

// subtract today from the objective and divide by 24*60*60 to get days
$difference = ceil(($end - $start) / (86400));

</code>

Thanks for your assistance.
~Philip

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