Difference Between Dates

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I'm Having some problems calculating the number of Days between Two Dates.. The dates are in YYYY-mm-dd (MySQL) Format, and I need to know the number of DAYS between the two.

I know this is simple... Just really hate DATE() and mktime() - They always confuse me..

[Houdini]

Then use the MySQL DATEDIFF() function HERE

DATEDIFF(expr1,expr2)

DATEDIFF() returns expr1 – expr2 expressed as a value in days from one date to the other. expr1 and expr2 are date or date-and-time expressions. Only the date parts of the values are used in the calculation.

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Need to do it in PHP.. DATEDIFF() was added in MySQL 4.1.1 and this is a 3.2x series

[Installer]

Try this:

$now_ts = strtotime($now);
$then_ts = strtotime($then);
$days_diff = 0;
while ($now_ts > $then_ts) {
    $now_ts = strtotime('-1 day', $now_ts);
    $days_diff++;
}

or this:

$now_arr = explode('-', $now);
$then_arr = explode('-', $then);
$now_jd = cal_to_jd(CAL_GREGORIAN, $now_arr[1], $now_arr[2], $now_arr[0]);
$then_jd = cal_to_jd(CAL_GREGORIAN, $then_arr[1], $then_arr[2], $then_arr[0]);
$days_diff = $now_jd - $then_jd;

[scrypte]

I use this nice little function:

function timeLeft($theTime) {

$now            = strtotime("now");
$timeLeft    = $theTime - $now;

if($timeLeft > 0) {
    $days = floor($timeLeft/60/60/24);
    $hours = $timeLeft/60/60%24;
    $mins = $timeLeft/60%60;
    $secs = $timeLeft%60;

    if($days) {
        $theText    = $days . " Day(s)";
        if($hours) {
            $theText    .= ", " .$hours . " Hour(s) ";
        }
    } elseif($hours) {
        $theText    = $hours . " Hour(s)";
        if($mins) {
            $theText    .= ", " .$mins . " Minute(s) ";
        }
    } elseif($mins) {
        $theText    = $mins . " Minute(s)";
        if($secs)
        {
            $theText    .= ", " .$secs . " Second(s) ";
        }
    } elseif($secs) {
        $theText    = $secs . " Second(s)";
    }
} else {
    $theText    = "0";
}

return $theText;
} 

works great