Finding the number of days between two dates

Question

How to find number of days between two dates using PHP?

Answer 1

Here is my improved version which shows 1 Year(s) 2 Month(s) 25 day(s) if the 2nd parameter is passed.

class App_Sandbox_String_Util {
    /**
     * Usage: App_Sandbox_String_Util::getDateDiff();
     * @param int $your_date timestamp
     * @param bool $hr human readable. e.g. 1 year(s) 2 day(s)
     * @see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2040560/finding-the-number-of-days-between-two-dates
     * @see http://qSandbox.com
     */
    static public function getDateDiff($your_date, $hr = 0) {
        $now = time(); // or your date as well
        $datediff = $now - $your_date;
        $days = floor( $datediff / ( 3600 * 24 ) );

        $label = '';

        if ($hr) {
            if ($days >= 365) { // over a year
                $years = floor($days / 365);
                $label .= $years . ' Year(s)';
                $days -= 365 * $years;
            }

            if ($days) {
                $months = floor( $days / 30 );
                $label .= ' ' . $months . ' Month(s)';
                $days -= 30 * $months;
            }

            if ($days) {
                $label .= ' ' . $days . ' day(s)';
            }
        } else {
            $label = $days;
        }

        return $label;
    }
}