PHP Countdown to Date

Question

How could set a date and get a countdown in PHP? For example if I set the date as 3 December 2PM it would tell me how many days and hours are remaining.

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Answer 1

Let me play around like this:

$rem = strtotime('2012-08-01 14:00:00') - time();
$day = floor($rem / 86400);
$hr  = floor(($rem % 86400) / 3600);
$min = floor(($rem % 3600) / 60);
$sec = ($rem % 60);
if($day) echo "$day Days ";
if($hr) echo "$hr Hours ";
if($min) echo "$min Minutes ";
if($sec) echo "$sec Seconds ";
echo "Remaining...";

Try this at your leisure... :-)

NOTE: There is no if() test for echo "Remaining...", just coz you wont process this in case when $rem <= 0. Isn't it?