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

my function to resolve issue

function diffMonth($from, $to) {

        $fromYear = date("Y", strtotime($from));
        $fromMonth = date("m", strtotime($from));
        $toYear = date("Y", strtotime($to));
        $toMonth = date("m", strtotime($to));
        if ($fromYear == $toYear) {
            return ($toMonth-$fromMonth)+1;
        } else {
            return (12-$fromMonth)+1+$toMonth;
        }

    }