How to calculate duration of two different of two date in codeigniter?

Question

I prefer to calculate date time in Codeigniter as below description

I select date from database with two different duration

I want to get result as below.

duration = from_date-To_date

duration = ?

<?php 
    $exp = date("y-m-d",strtotime($invoice->fto));
    $now = date("y-m-d",time());
    $diffday = $now-$exp;
    echo $diffday;
?>

As above code I get only 0

possible duplicate of [How to calculate the difference between two dates using PHP?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/676824/how-to-calculate-the-difference-between-two-dates-using-php) — vaso123, Nov 28 '14 at 12:29
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score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 28 '14 at 13:16

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CodeIgniter has a helper function, that will do this for you, within the date helper. Called "timespan"

echo timespan($exp, $now);

answered Nov 28 '14 at 13:16

Craig

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