[PHP] Re: subtracting dates...

2003-08-02 Thread John Ryan
yeah, i was thinking that before i decided to post to the newsgroup. i thought there was some simple way of doing it and id be wasting my time. obviosuly not Craig Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Try something along the lines of if($current_MM $MM) {

[PHP] Re: subtracting dates...

2003-08-02 Thread Craig Roberts
Another idea (slightly simpler)... how about using mktime(); to create a timestamp from your date info, and subtract that from the current timestamp - leaving (i think) the person's age in seconds... Then just do some math... hmm... is that really simpler? well it seemed it when i started

[PHP] Re: subtracting dates...

2003-08-02 Thread Paul Chvostek
On Sat, Aug 02, 2003 at 08:30:34PM +0100, John Ryan wrote: In mySQL, I store dates as -MM-DD, a standard DATE type. It stores users date of births. I need to calculate in a PHP script, the users age from this DOB. I get a PHP date in the same format as the mySQL and subtract, which

[PHP] Re: subtracting dates...

2003-08-02 Thread Craig Roberts
Try something along the lines of if($current_MM $MM) { $age = $calculatedage - 1; } you'll also need to do something like this with the day of the month if the user's bday is in the current month. at least... i think that works out :$ Craig Roberts John Ryan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in

[PHP] Re: Subtracting dates in php

2003-07-01 Thread Shivanischal A
try http://www.phpclasses.org -shiva Mike Mannakee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Anyone know of an easy way to add or subtract dates in php the way you can in mysql? Easier, that is, than coding the logic by hand? This seems like a total pain. Mike --