[RESOLVED] Creating a day counter from a certain date

[ecreative]

how would i make a "how many days old" counter where it would show the amount of days that had passed from a specific date? 🙂

[leatherback]

HI,

use the difference in dates. From de date function page in the manual (www.php.net/date):

function DayDiff($StartDate, $StopDate)
{
   // converting the dates to epoch and dividing the difference
   // to the approriate days using 86400 seconds for a day
   //
   return (date('U', strtotime($StopDate)) - date('U', strtotime($StartDate))) / 86400; //seconds a day
}

[Swardh]

Here's my way of getting the amount of days from a specific date 🙂

$day = "2005-11-23";
$days = (time() - strtotime($day)) / 86400;
echo floor($days);