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Pekka
Pekka

Reputation: 1115

get Number of month from a date php

Suppose I have a date specific as 2016-11-14 . Also I have another date (starting) 02-14-2017 and ending 02-30-2017

I want to count the months that has passed is the date 2016-11-14 until the set of Range date.

I tried searching but I cant find a link on how to find months that has passed from a date to set of range date

Upvotes: 2

Views: 610

Answers (1)

John Conde
John Conde

Reputation: 219814

DateTime() makes doing date math easy:

$datetime1 = new DateTime('2016-12-01');
$datetime2 = new DateTime('2017-02-01');
$interval = $datetime2->diff($datetime1);
echo (($interval->format('%y') * 12) + $interval->format('%m'));

Demo

Upvotes: 4

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