Incorrect DateTime interval value php

Question

When trying to check the difference between two dates I found that when getting the difference between the dates: 31/10/2019 and 01/12/2019.

I was only getting a result of one month. Anyone know how I can fix it?

$d1 = new DateTime('2019-10-31');
$d2 = new DateTime('2019-12-01');
$interval= $d1->diff($d2);
var_dump($interval);

Returns

object(DateInterval)#3 (16) {
  ["y"]=>
  int(0)
  ["m"]=>
  int(1)
  ["d"]=>
  int(0)
  ["h"]=>
  int(0)
  ["i"]=>
  int(0)

Possible duplicate of [How to calculate the difference between two dates using PHP?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/676824/how-to-calculate-the-difference-between-two-dates-using-php) — Can O' Spam, Oct 31 '19 at 16:40

Eli · Answer 1 · 2019-10-31T21:20:10.460

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Well your difference is 31 days, you can get the days like this.

<?php

$d1 = new DateTime('2019-10-31');
$d2 = new DateTime('2019-12-01');

$interval= $d1->diff($d2);

echo $interval->format('%R%a days');

edited Oct 31 '19 at 21:20

answered Oct 31 '19 at 16:55

Eli

hmm... I use de alias before, but well I hope now is better – Eli Oct 31 '19 at 21:23

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