[RESOLVED] days ago calculation?

[Sangre]

Hello guys

This is my code:

<?php
$month = 10;
$day = 17;
$year = 2006;

$days = (mktime(0, 0, 0, date("m"), date("d"), date("Y")) - mktime(0, 0, 0, $month, $day, $year)) / 86400;
echo $days;
?>

-> Take the seconds from unixtime now, minus unixtime date, split by seconds in a day = amount of days ago

Problem is, the output is:

41.0416666667

When the days ago is less then 31, it goes perfect.
How come that its not compatible with more then 31 days ago?

Or is there a better solution to determine how many days ago a date was?

Thnx!

[Piranha]

First it is bad coding practice to get the date more than once. What if it changes from the 31 of July to the 1 of August when the computer have read date("m") but not date("d"). Then the date would be the 1 of July. Instead do like this:

<?php
$month = 10;
$day = 17;
$year = 2006;

$mydate = getdate();
$days = (mktime(0, 0, 0, $mydate("m"), $mydate("d"), $mydate("Y")) - mktime(0, 0, 0, $month, $day, $year)) / 86400;
echo $days;
?>

Then for your question. Try to use [man]round[/man] or [man]floor[/man] to get the number of days ago.

$days = (mktime(0, 0, 0, $mydate("m"), $mydate("d"), $mydate("Y")) - mktime(0, 0, 0, $month, $day, $year)) / 86400;
$days = round($days);
echo $days;

[Sangre]

Thnkx for the tips 😃. it solved the problem.

I also found out what went wrong, summertime 🙂
it gives a day 25 hours ago. that explaines the *.016666667 (=3600 seconds)

thnx piranha