Compare formatted dates in php

Question

My question is: I have two dates in string format:

string(10) "2016-21-10"
string(10) "2016-05-10"

I can not figure out how to compare them. So basically i need the difference between the two given date. How can I achieve it?

convert the dates into the timestamp and then compare easily. If you need difference then Check [this](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/39869526/get-number-of-days-from-given-dates-in-a-array-php/39869674#39869674) for the difference only. — Murad Hasan, Oct 05 '16 at 10:08
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score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 05 '16 at 10:12

You can use createFromFormat() function to create DateTime object from string.

Create two DateTime object like this,

$date1 = DateTime::createFromFormat('Y-d-m', '2016-21-10');
$date2 = DateTime::createFromFormat('Y-d-m', '2016-05-10');

To get the difference between two dates you can use diff() function. Use it like this,

$interval = $date1->diff($date2);

You can use the $interval variable to get the difference between two dates.

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