Calculate the number of months between two dates in PHP?

Question

Without using PHP 5.3\'s date_diff function (I\'m using PHP 5.2.17), is there a simple and accurate way to do this? I am thinking of something like the code below, but I don

Answer 1

This is a simple method I wrote in my class to count the number of months involved into two given dates :

public function nb_mois($date1, $date2)
{
    $begin = new DateTime( $date1 );
    $end = new DateTime( $date2 );
    $end = $end->modify( '+1 month' );

    $interval = DateInterval::createFromDateString('1 month');

    $period = new DatePeriod($begin, $interval, $end);
    $counter = 0;
    foreach($period as $dt) {
        $counter++;
    }

    return $counter;
}