Days between two dates

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How I can get number of days between 2 dates using PHP? eg:

25\02\2011
25\03\2011

I want to make PHP calculation: how many days are between 25\02\2011 and 25\03\2011.

Jacob · Answer 1 · 2011-02-16T00:15:09.167

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<?php
echo date_diff(new DateTime('2011-02-25'), 
    new DateTime('2011-03-25'))->format('%a');

This is an Object Oriented approach, that is much more reliable and simple than some of the alternatives (using the differences in the unix timestamp, which works in most cases).

date_diff is an alias of DateTime::diff, so we're creating two DateTime objects and using date_diff to return a DateInterval object.

The ->format('%a') is just asking for the interval using the total number of days. You can make it more informative with a longer format to print: x years, x months, x days

edited Feb 16 '11 at 00:15

answered Feb 16 '11 at 00:00

Jacob

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can please tell me what that meaning ...and pleas no oop – Kareem Nour Emam Feb 16 '11 at 00:09
I've expanded my answer, why would you not want OOP? Its a much tidier approach. – Jacob Feb 16 '11 at 00:15
oky it equal 6015.........what that mean? – Kareem Nour Emam Feb 16 '11 at 00:18
running that code should echo 28. The number of days between the two dates. – Jacob Feb 16 '11 at 00:19

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