need script help involving dates

[JGross]

heres my problem:

om my webpage i have a script setup that when someone fills out a form it adds them to the db and puts them on a page etc. I have it set so that when they join the script takes that time and enters it into the mysql.

What i want to do now is set it so that the page that lists the people that fill out the form displays how many days it has been since they filled out the form. Where I have my problem is in the math part. Using the date format for the table and the getdate() function for php i have 2 days in the year-month-day format. How do i set it up in php so that it takes the join date and subtracts todays date to leave me with a single number which is the days it has been since the join date?

sorry if that is confusing

[barand]

)

$daysElapsed = (time() - $databasetimefield) / (24 * 60 * 60)

or, if the date from the field is a string, then

$daysElapsed = (time() - strtotime($databasetimefield)) / (24 * 60 * 60