Calculate number of days between 2 dates

[turbohost]

Hi Guys,

How can I calculate the number of days between 2 dates in PHP?

Thx,
Turbo

[dreamcatcher]

First Date: 1 January 2005
Second Date: 27 January 2005

$first_date = mktime(12,0,0,1,1,2005);
$second_date = mktime(12,0,0,1,27,2005);

$offset = $second_date-$first_date;

echo floor($offset/60/60/24) . " Days";

This will display:

26 Days.

dc

[Romeo]

Hi Turbohost,

as you didn't tell more about those dates you have, you should be aware that Dreamcatcher's script will handle short term dates within the unix epoch only, that is 1970-01-01 ... 2038-01-19.
If you would like to count the days since your grandmother's birthday, it will get more complicated.

Regards,
R.

[coopster]

Another trick is to use your database to do the work for you.