On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 11:40 PM, Frank Arensmeier <farensme...@gmail.com>wrote:
> 29 dec 2011 kl. 22.22 skrev Eric Lommatsch: > > > So far in looking at the functions that are available at > > http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.datetime.php I have not been able to > figure > > out how to do what I need to do. Below is a snippet showing > approximately > > what I am trying to do. > > On the same page you are referring, there are plenty of examples on how to > calculate the difference between two dates. Choose one and see if it fits > your bill. Or is there any particular reason why you're writing your "own" > function? > > http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.datetime.php#78981 > > /frank > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > since you have everything in database tables why not to do this calculation on database side which would be much appropriate place ? /* columns date_start = '2011-02-08'; date_end = ' 2011-03-04'; */ select DATEDIFF(date_end, date_start); http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/date-and-time-functions.html#function_datediff
