How to get difference between two day in php

Question

I have on function which passing some parameter the like

everyWeekOn("Mon",11,19,00)

I want to compute the difference between the current day (e.g. 'Fri') and passed parameter day i.e. Mon.

The output should be:

The difference between Mon and Fri is 3

I tried it like this

 $_dt = new DateTime();
 error_log('$_dt date'. $_dt->format('d'));
 error_log('$_dt year'. $_dt->format('Y'));
 error_log('$_dt month'. $_dt->format('m'));

But know I don't know what to do next to get the difference between the two days.

Note that this question is different from How to calculate the difference between two dates using PHP? because I only have a day and not a complete date.

@martin my question is different please check first – Apr 17 '15 at 06:28 — , Apr 17 '15 at 06:28
Yes, thank you for the clarification, I misread it. – martin Apr 17 '15 at 06:30 — martin, Apr 17 '15 at 06:30

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 17 '15 at 06:31

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Just implement DateTime class in conjunction with ->diff method:

function everyWeekOn($day) {
    $today = new DateTime;
    $next = DateTime::createFromFormat('D', $day);
    $diff = $next->diff($today);
    return "The difference between {$next->format('l')} and {$today->format('l')} is {$diff->days}";
}

echo everyWeekOn('Mon');

answered Apr 17 '15 at 06:31

Kevin

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thax @ghost you save my ass ;) – Apr 17 '15 at 06:37
Awesome buddy thax for the help – Apr 17 '15 at 06:37
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@Sanji sure glad this helped – Kevin Apr 17 '15 at 06:39
hey ghost can you explain just what is $next->format('l') pls – Apr 17 '15 at 06:43
@Sanji its the same thing with `date('l')`, (thats small L) http://php.net/manual/en/function.date.php its using the same format. and the [`->format()`](http://php.net/manual/en/datetime.format.php) – Kevin Apr 17 '15 at 06:49

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 17 '15 at 06:25

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$date = new DateTime('2015-01-01 12:00:00');
$difference = $date->diff(new DateTime());
echo $difference->days.' days <br>';

answered Apr 17 '15 at 06:25

Maxim Lazarev

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score 0 · Answer 3 · edited Apr 17 '15 at 07:05

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You can find no. of days in two days by using this code

<?php
    $today = time(); 
    $chkdate = strtotime("16-04-2015");
    $date = $today - $chkdate;
    echo floor($date/(60*60*24));
?>

Please use this may this help you

edited Apr 17 '15 at 07:05

MackieeE

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answered Apr 17 '15 at 06:24

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WATCH OUT: not all days are 86400 (60*60*24) seconds long! This may have unexpected results if the server is not using UTC as timezone! Use `DateTime` and its methods instead. – ItalyPaleAle Apr 17 '15 at 14:15

How to get difference between two day in php

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