calculate the difference between 2 timestamps in php

Question

I am using 2 timestamp in my table which is starttime datatype- timestamp and as current timestamp. endtime datatype-timestamp and default as 0000-00-00 00:00:00

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Answer 1

The simplest answer(for me of course) is here

function dateDifference($date_1 , $date_2 , $differenceFormat = '%a' )
{
    $datetime1 = date_create($date_1);
    $datetime2 = date_create($date_2);

    $interval = date_diff($datetime1, $datetime2);

    return $interval->format($differenceFormat);

}

In this case date_create() function creates the DateTime object