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

I have created one function which helps you to get Hours, Minutes and Days from the two Unix timestamps by just passing type as 3rd parameter.

public function diffBtwTimesAsPerType($start, $end, $returnType=1) {
    $seconds_diff = $start - $end;
    if($returnType == 1){
        return $seconds_diff/60;//minutes
    }else if($returnType == 2){
        return $seconds_diff/3600;//hours
    }else{
        return $seconds_diff/3600/24; //days
    }
}

echo "
 Minutes = ".diffBtwTimesAsPerType(1593714600, 1593541800, 1);//minutes
echo "
 Hours = ".diffBtwTimesAsPerType(1593714600, 1593541800, 2);//hours
echo "
 Days = ".diffBtwTimesAsPerType(1593714600, 1593541800, 3);//days