How can we know the number of days between two given dates
using PHP?
Answers were Sorted based on User's Feedback
Answer / ash
$date1 = date('Y-m-d');
$date2 = "2007-07-05";
$days = (strtotime($date1) - strtotime($date2)) / (60 * 60
* 24);
echo " No of $days difference";
Is This Answer Correct ? | 25 Yes | 4 No |
Answer / richa
Something we must know about strtotime
(try putting up a date grater than 30 years)
yes it will give an unexpected output, because it uses, unix
timestamp, and thus doesnt treat a date greater than 30 yrs,
as a correct value.
Amazing but true
Is This Answer Correct ? | 6 Yes | 0 No |
Answer / savvy
"The function expects to be given a string containing a US
English date format and will try to parse that format into a
Unix timestamp (the number of seconds since January 1 1970
00:00:00 GMT), relative to the timestamp given in now, or
the current time if none is supplied." --- in php.net So Be
careful when calculating with strtotime(). Therefore in the
above ans it might be like this way
$date1 = date('M-d-Y');
$date2 = "August-07-2007";
Is This Answer Correct ? | 6 Yes | 2 No |
Answer / dheeraj
<?php
$date1=date('Y-m-d');
$date2="2007-09-15";
echo (round($diff=strtotime($date1)-strtotime($date2)))/86400;
?>
Is This Answer Correct ? | 5 Yes | 1 No |
Answer / rameshfromind
There is one function for gregoriantojd that means convert
to gregorian calendar date to julian date count.
Below the example for counting days between two date.
<?
$startDate = '01-01-2008' // mm-dd-yyyy/yy
$endDate = '01-30-2008' // mm-dd-yyyy/yy
echo gregoriantojd($endDate) - $gregoriantojd($startDate);
?
// OUTPUT
29
Is This Answer Correct ? | 5 Yes | 2 No |
Answer / sachin
If we know the date format and separator used in dates,
we can separate them out into day, month and year.
e.g.
$d1 = '29-12-1985'; //dd-mm-yyyy
$d2 = '31-12-1985'; //dd-mm-yyyy
$d1_pieces = explode('-',$d1);
$d2_pieces = explode('-',$d2);
$timestamp_d1 =
mktime(0,0,0,$d1_pieces[1],$d1_pieces[0],$d1_pieces[2],);
$timestamp_d2 =
mktime(0,0,0,$d2_pieces[1],$d2_pieces[0],$d2_pieces[2],);
$diff = $d1-$d2;
$num_days = $diff/(24*60*60);
Is This Answer Correct ? | 3 Yes | 2 No |
Explain the ternary conditional operator in php?
Is php 5.6 secure?
What is the current stable version of php? What advance thing in php7?
Explain some most commonly use string functions in php?
What is the difference between for and foreach?
Write a program in php to print a table of a number?
What is php trait?
What are the different filter functions used to filter a variable?
How to check an key is exists in array?
How do you sort an array in php?
Is php an array?
What is the substitution of submit in PHP?