date difference

[pradhanparas]

hello all

I need to find the datediffernce between 2 strings lets say:

May 12 2003 and Apr 11 2003.

How do i do this?. i was able to convert these into unix time stampsusing mktime. now how do find the differnece?

Thanks
Paras.

[scoppc]

just substract the timestamp and you got the difference in seconds.

[feldon23]

$date1=20030128173207;
$date2=20030203161007;

echo "There are ".floor((date("U",$date2) - date("U",$date1)) / 86400)." days between the two dates specified.";