Well, I'll chime in as well. I'd recommend doing all your calculations
in timestamps in seconds, then convert the results into days, dates, or
whatever. If you only have a date to start with then convert to a
timestamp, do the calculation, and convert back. You could wrap it in a
function like this:
<?php
function dateDiffInDays($date1,$date2) {
$date1Tm = strtotime($date1);
$date2Tm = strtotime($date2);
$diff = abs($date1Tm - $date2Tm) / 86400;
return $diff;
}
$today = date("Ymd",mktime(0,0,0, date("m"), date("d"), date("Y")));
$last_week = date("Ymd", mktime(0,0,0, date("m"), date("d")-7,
date("Y")));
print("today: $today <br>\n");
print("last_week: $last_week <br>\n");
print("diff in days: " . dateDiffInDays($last_week, $today) . "<br>\n");
?>
On Thursday, February 7, 2002, at 04:21 PM, Sander Peters wrote:
> Hello,
>
>
> This is my problem:
>
> $today = date("Ymd", mktime(0,0,0, date(m),date(d),date(Y)));
> $last_week = date("Ymd", mktime(0,0,0, date(m),date(d)-7,date(Y)));
> echo ($today - $last_week);
> The result is a number like 8876 (20020107-20011231 = 8876)
> But in date thinking it should be 7!
>
> How can I let php count in real days/month/years in stead of numbers?
>
> Maybe this is a silly question, but anyone who has the answer would help
> me very much!
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
>
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>
> Sander Peters
>
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