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Philipp Buck
Philipp Buck

Reputation: 123

Output time time between a past date and today php

At the moment I have a query which check the date from an external website and give me some information if that date is older than four weeks:

$json = json_decode($result, true);

echo date("d.m.Y",strtotime($json[lastUpdated][when]));

$mydate = strtotime($json[lastUpdated][when]);

if ($mydate <= strtotime('4 weeks ago')) {
    echo "Is not up to date!";
}

And I would like to have an output of how much time has passed between the date $mydate and today. Thanks!

Upvotes: 1

Views: 41

Answers (1)

maxhb
maxhb

Reputation: 8865

You could simply calculate the difference between both dates by using:

$mydate = strtotime($json['lastUpdated']['when']); // I guess the quotes are missing in your code
$now = time();
echo "The difference is " . ($now - $mydate) . " seconds";

If you need something different then seconds you'll have to calulcate those values, e.g.

echo "The difference is " . (($now - $mydate)/60) . " minutes";
echo "The difference is " . (($now - $mydate)/60*60) . " hours";
echo "The difference is " . (($now - $mydate)/60*60*24) . " days";

Upvotes: 2

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