PHP difference date to day

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Date Difference in php?
Compare 2 timestamps in PHP and get the days between?

I've 2 dates like 15/02/2012 and 18/03/2012, I need to know the number of days difference between them. Does such a utility exist in php?

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 24 '12 at 14:29

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date_diff is what you want.

answered Jan 24 '12 at 14:29

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score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 24 '12 at 14:28

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$diff = (int) ( abs(strtotime($date1) - strtotime($date2)) / (60 * 60 * 24) );
echo 'diff:' . $diff

answered Jan 24 '12 at 14:28

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I would recommend against using `strtotime` in favour of [`DateTime`](http://php.net/DateTime). – Tim Cooper Jan 24 '12 at 14:31

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Jan 24 '12 at 14:29

PHP has a function for this:

http://www.php.net/manual/en/datetime.diff.php

Example

$datetime1 = new DateTime('2009-10-11');
$datetime2 = new DateTime('2009-10-13');
$interval = $datetime1->diff($datetime2);
echo $interval->format('%R%a days');

Output

+2 days

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Jan 24 '12 at 14:30

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You could turn those dates into timestamps:

$ts1 = strtotime("15-02-2012");
$ts2 = strtotime("18-03-2012");
$diff = ($ts2 - $ts1)/86400;

echo $diff . " days";

answered Jan 24 '12 at 14:30

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PHP difference date to day

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