Calculating number of years between 2 dates in PHP

Question

I need to get the number of years from 2 dates provided. Here\'s my code:

function daysDifference($endDate, $beginDate)
{
   $date_parts1=explode(\"-\", $beg         


        

Answer 1

the $start_date and $end_date' value is the number of days, not seconds. so you should not divide the $diff with 365.25*60*60*24.

function daysDifference($endDate, $beginDate)
{

   $date_parts1 = explode("-", $beginDate);
   $date_parts2 = explode("-", $endDate);
   $start_date = gregoriantojd($date_parts1[1], $date_parts1[2], $date_parts1[0]);
   $end_date = gregoriantojd($date_parts2[1], $date_parts2[2], $date_parts2[0]);
   $diff = abs($end_date - $start_date);
   $years = floor($diff / 365.25);
   return $years;
}

echo daysDifference('2011-03-12','2008-03-09');