How to count date like this with PHP

PHP
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Hi guys,

I wonder if anyone can give me the right direction or suggest keywords that I can do a research on.

I would like to count date like under the headline of a post on the website bellow:

http://www.benhuh.com/

Thanks for your help in advance.

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You could use UNIX timestamp and calculate the number of days since the post was made till the current date.

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To convert your date and time to UNIX timestamp you may use strtotime() function:
http://us.php.net/manual/en/function.strtotime.php

Example:

$start = strtotime($your_date);
$end = strtotime(“now”);
days = round(($end-$start)/86400);

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not entirely sure why you would count days instead of a more user-friendly format, but yeah…

(Which do you associate more with: 156 days or 5 months?)

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Check out PHP Calendar Functions:

http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.calendar.php

GregorianToJD — Converts a Gregorian date to Julian Day Count

Valid Range for Gregorian Calendar 4714 B.C. to 9999 A.D.

int gregoriantojd ( int $month , int $day , int $year )

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Hi guys,

Thanks for response. Much appreciated.

@StarLion - I think it would impressed visitors like when I like visit a web site with the feature.

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