I currently have two date objects like this:
2018-01-17 22:50:30 2018-01-23 23:04:36
And I am trying to find the number of days between them. What is the proper way to do this in Laravel/PHP? Is just subtracting them sufficient?
I tried the possible solution linked below and it has not been working for me.
Since this is tagged Laravel, you have access to Carbon which makes this easy:
Assuming both are Carbon instances:
$date1->diffInDays($date2);
Eloquent timestamps are automatically converted to Carbon instances for manipulation.
If you have 2 timestamps as string or unix epoch, you can just substract them and divide by 1 day in seconds: Source
$now = time(); // or your date as well
$your_date = strtotime("2010-01-01");
$datediff = $now - $your_date;
echo round($datediff / (60 * 60 * 24));
If you are using DateTime objects: Source
$datetime1 = new DateTime('2009-10-11');
$datetime2 = new DateTime('2009-10-13');
$interval = $datetime1->diff($datetime2);
echo $interval->format('%R%a days');
$datetime1 = new DateTime('2018-01-17 22:50:30'); $datetime2 = new DateTime('2018-01-23 23:04:36'); $interval = $datetime1->diff($datetime2); echo $interval->format('%R%a days');