How to calculate the number of years married?

Question

I have a line of text as follows...

"Now married for XXX years, my wife and I are excited for the future."

Our wedding date is: June 7th, 2008

So, currently it reads:

"Now married for two years, my wife and I are excited for the future."

What php code can I put in the XXX space to automatically insert the number of years we have been married?

wow, this must be the most specialized question ever posted on stackoverflow. — Bernd Elkemann, Mar 11 '11 at 20:33
since this will likely be closed, if you want the answer, google: php years between two dates — Fosco, Mar 11 '11 at 20:35

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 11 '11 at 20:35

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<?php
$married = new DateTime('2009-10-11');
$currentdate = new DateTime();
$interval = $married->diff($currentdate);
echo $interval->format('%y years');
?>

Something along those lines should do the trick. I haven't run this code, so you may need to tweak it a bit but it should get you started.

answered Mar 11 '11 at 20:35

Cody

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What if I only have PHP Version 5.2.10-2ubuntu6.5 ? – MarriedGuy Mar 11 '11 at 21:07

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 11 '11 at 20:33

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What you can do is subtract the current date and the anniversary date. use a function like one that is displayed here:

http://www.ozzu.com/programming-forum/subtracting-date-from-another-t29111.html

answered Mar 11 '11 at 20:33

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He wants something that calculates years married. To ensure that there was no divorce and subsequent re-marriage it would need hooks into the the state's and church's registries. – Bernd Elkemann Mar 11 '11 at 20:35
And then there's the other wives as well, can't forget to include those in the calculations. – Marc B Mar 11 '11 at 20:36

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 11 '11 at 20:36

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<?
$anniv = new DateTime('June 7th, 2008');
$now = new DateTime();
$interval = $now->diff($anniv, true);
echo 'Now married '.$interval->y.' years';
?>

answered Mar 11 '11 at 20:36

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score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Mar 11 '11 at 22:01

The DateTime objects that people have used so far only work if you have a newer version of PHP. Here's a solution without them. Finding just the number of years is pretty easy.

<?php
$date1 = strtotime("June 7th, 2008");  //Get general timestamp for day
$today = time(); //Today's date

$secs = $today - $date1;  //Get number of seconds passed since $date1 til $today
$years = floor($secs / (60*60*24*365)) //Derive years from seconds using number of seconds in a year

echo $years;
?>

or, in a single line of code:

<?php
$years = floor((time() - strtotime("June 7th, 2008")) / (60 * 60 * 24 * 365));
?>

How to calculate the number of years married?

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