[az88]

Say I have 2 dates stored in variables like so...

PHP Code:

$date = $row['date'];

$now = date("Y-m-d H:i:s"); 

How would I go about finding the difference between them like:

PHP Code:

echo $now - $date; 

Thanks

[wirehopper]

PHP: strtotime - Manual

[az88]

I'm not sure how I can achieve what I am trying to do using the strtotime() function

[wirehopper]

strtotime has some built in calculations - where you can say $tomorrow=strtotime("+1 day");

However, if that's not suitable, you can use

PHP Code:

$date1=strtotime($date);

$date2=now();

$difference=$date2-$date1;

$aResult=strptime($difference);

var_dump($aResult); 

PHP: strptime - Manual

Not tested

[az88]

Ok there does seem to be a few bugs in that.

Fatal error: Call to undefined function now() in ...

Warning: strptime() expects exactly 2 parameters, 1 given in

However I tweaked it a bit but I'm still not getting the result I am wanting.

PHP Code:

        $row = mysql_fetch_array($result);

        $date = $row['date'];

        $format = '%d/%m/%Y %H:%M:%S';

        $date1=strtotime($date);
        $date2=date("Y-m-d H:i:s");
        $difference=$date2-$date1;
        $aResult=strptime($difference,$format);
        echo $aResult; 

[wirehopper]

This $date2=date("Y-m-d H:i:s"); should probably be $date2=time();

As I said - I didn't test it.

[Jcbones]

There are a couple of threads that may help you out.

http://www.hotscripts.com/forums/php...ogin-code.html

,and

http://www.hotscripts.com/forums/php...-function.html