Get interval seconds between two datetime in PHP?

Question

2009-10-05 18:11:08

2009-10-05 18:07:13

This should generate 235,how to do it ?

Answer 1

You can use strtotime() to do that:

$diff = strtotime('2009-10-05 18:11:08') - strtotime('2009-10-05 18:07:13')

A similar approach is possible with DateTime objects, e.g.

$date = new DateTime( '2009-10-05 18:07:13' );
$date2 = new DateTime( '2009-10-05 18:11:08' );

$diff = $date2->getTimestamp() - $date->getTimestamp();