date functions

[digiduck]

first off I've never used PHP before, I'm an ASP/.NET guy but on this particular project I have to write a script in PHP and I need help...

I need to take a date like "5/12/2003" and subtract it from todays date to get the numbers of days returned. The reason is I need to find out if certian periods of time have passed, like 1 day, 7 days, 14 days...

Can someone please post some code that I can use? Or point me in the right direction to some examples. I'd appreciate it.

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[miahmiah900]

convert the date value to a timestamp, get the current timestamp and compare the two values. timestamps are recorded in number of seconds, so if you divide by 86400 you get the number of days.

the function you need is mktime() - you can look up the syntax at:

http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.datetime.php

 

[skiflyer]

I think you'll want more than mktime... namely, date, mktime & strtotime

thread434-711972

Might be of help, some code there.

but also definately read this page...

http://us3.php.net/manual/en/function.date.php

-Rob