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Date and Time Difference calculates in PHP

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  1. /**
  2.  * Calculates the differences between two date
  3.  * 
  4.  * @param date $date1
  5.  * @param date $date2
  6.  * @return array
  7.  */
  8. function dateDifference($date1, $date2)
  9. {
  10.     $d1 = (is_string($date1) ? strtotime($date1) : $date1);
  11.     $d2 = (is_string($date2) ? strtotime($date2) : $date2);
  12.  
  13.     $diff_secs = abs($d1 - $d2);
  14.     $base_year = min(date("Y", $d1), date("Y", $d2));
  15.  
  16.     $diff = mktime(0, 0, $diff_secs, 1, 1, $base_year);
  17.  
  18.     return array
  19.     (
  20.         "years"                 => abs(substr(date('Ymd', $d1) - date('Ymd', $d2), 0, -4)),
  21.         "months_total"  => (date("Y", $diff) - $base_year) * 12 + date("n", $diff) - 1,
  22.         "months"                => date("n", $diff) - 1,
  23.         "days_total"    => floor($diff_secs / (3600 * 24)),
  24.         "days"                  => date("j", $diff) - 1,
  25.         "hours_total"   => floor($diff_secs / 3600),
  26.         "hours"                 => date("G", $diff),
  27.         "minutes_total" => floor($diff_secs / 60),
  28.         "minutes"               => (int) date("i", $diff),
  29.         "seconds_total" => $diff_secs,
  30.         "seconds"               => (int) date("s", $diff)
  31.     );
  32. }

URL: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/388673/php-date-calculation

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