What can use for DateTime::diff() for PHP 5.2?

Question

Is there any function equivalent to DateTime::diff() in PHP 5.2?

My local server is PHP 5.3 and using DateTime::diff(). then I found that my live site uses PHP 5.2 a

Answer 1

I use this, seems to work alright - obviously you can add a second parameter to make it more flexible:

function GetDateDiffFromNow($originalDate) 
{
    $unixOriginalDate = strtotime($originalDate);
    $unixNowDate = strtotime('now');
    $difference = $unixNowDate - $unixOriginalDate ;
    $days = (int)($difference / 86400);
    $hours = (int)($difference / 3600);
    $minutes = (int)($difference / 60);
    $seconds = $difference;

    // now do what you want with this now and return ...
}