Almost too embarrassed too ask this question: I need a day counter that counts up!

[Justin_Diamond]

Hi there,

I don't really know how to do this but I need a counter that goes up by 1 (One) every 24 hours. There is no need for it to stop at anytime.

Can anyone help or have a snippet?

Thanks

[tomwerner]

where is the value being stored? do you want the count to start again at the beginning of every month? If you are using a file then you need to open it, get the data, add 1, write it and close it. You will probably need to use a cron job to get it to go every 24 hours. Have a look at
http://www.phpbuilder.com/board/showthread.php?s=&threadid=10265827
for more help on cron jobs.

[Justin_Diamond]

Hi,

I just want it to count + 1 every 24 hours indefinitely. You see I am counting from when something happened if that makes sense.

Thanks again

[pyro]

Here ya go...

<?PHP
$date = '01-10-1984'; # mm-dd-yyyy
list ($month, $day, $year) = split('-', $date);
$starttime = mktime(0, 0, 0, $month, $day, $year);
$today = time();
$timepassed = $today-$starttime;
$days = floor($timepassed/(60*60*24));
echo $days.' days have passed since the significant event.';
?>

[Justin_Diamond]

Thats great,

Thanks so much for your help 🙂

[pyro]

Sure thing. 🙂