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Rene
Rene

Reputation: 642

Calculating difference between dates

I need your help in how to subtract the last_modified and the final_manuscript_date in the following array:

Array ( 
    [chapters_id] => 10736 
    [last_modified] => 2010-12-21 15:01:55 
    [steps_id] => 3 
    [sub_step_id] => 0 
    [steps_position] => 1 
    [final_manuscript_date] => 2010-09-27 
)

So I can in this case get a value of N days between the dates 2010-12-21 and 2010-09-27?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 49

Answers (3)

anubhava
anubhava

Reputation: 785286

Can't you simply do:

$diff = strtotime($arr["final_manuscript_date"]) - strtotime($arr["last_modified"]);
$days = $diff / 84600; // to get # of days, you can round them off or use ceil/floor

Upvotes: 2

Russell Dias
Russell Dias

Reputation: 73312

If you have 5.3+:

$date1 = new DateTime("2010-09-27");
$date2 = new DateTime("2010-12-21");
$interval = $date1->diff($date2);
echo $interval->d //returns days.

Upvotes: 1

CNeo
CNeo

Reputation: 746

Have you checked strtotime?

http://php.net/manual/en/function.strtotime.php

Upvotes: 0

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