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Get Days Between Two Dates Using PHP
This is a simple snippet of code that will return an array of days between two dates.
Read on for a little more info…
function GetDays($sStartDate, $sEndDate){
// Firstly, format the provided dates.
// This function works best with YYYY-MM-DD
// but other date formats will work thanks
// to strtotime().
$sStartDate = gmdate("Y-m-d", strtotime($sStartDate));
$sEndDate = gmdate("Y-m-d", strtotime($sEndDate));
// Start the variable off with the start date
$aDays[] = $sStartDate;
// Set a 'temp' variable, sCurrentDate, with
// the start date - before beginning the loop
$sCurrentDate = $sStartDate;
// While the current date is less than the end date
while($sCurrentDate < $sEndDate){
// Add a day to the current date
$sCurrentDate = gmdate("Y-m-d", strtotime("+1 day", strtotime($sCurrentDate)));
// Add this new day to the aDays array
$aDays[] = $sCurrentDate;
}
// Once the loop has finished, return the
// array of days.
return $aDays;
}
?>
Usage:
You can use most date formats, such as:
or
Whatever strtotime can handle, you can pass to this function.
Hope it helps!
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Great and very usefull script..thank you
Thx buddy i really enjoyed this function… as i truely req. it in my proj….
Again thanking u….
Kudos to you dude. that saved me some time! thank you!
Thank you! This is exactly what I had been looking for.
This is exactly what i want..but it does not work well…i alway get this error
Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 30 seconds exceeded
i don't know why..!!!!i understand the code well but…
thanks alot..thanks for any help…
by the way….i use a logical two days!!!!!!!!!! the start date less than the end date and between them not more than 25 days..:(
Thanx a lot for the function
am not getting any output. The result is displayed as array
That is a horrible solution! Very inefficient, slow and bloated.
Try this instead.
$time_diff_in_seconds = strtotime($date1) - strtotime($date2);
$time_diff_in_days = ceil($time_diff_in_seconds / 86400);
ah, your getting days as strings.. ok , google was wrong. blame them.
Thanks…. Simple but very useful…
You are a life saver
PERFECT! AWESOME!!! THX!!
An answer I have been looking for. This a great.
Thank you so much.
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