Today’s script will be much useful to you and i hope interesting as well. ie., PHP Script to find days between two selected dates.
Let’s see the PHP script (find_days() function):
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//this function return two main values status (either true or false) and result (which has all the other details) function find_days($start_date, $end_date) { $response = new stdClass(); //using try catch in case if any invalid date entered try { //get the entered start date and end date and convert into datetime $sdate = new DateTime($start_date); $edate = new DateTime($end_date); //here is the real deal, diff() is the function which is going to give us the result $dateInterval = $edate->diff($sdate); $response->status = true; $response->result = $dateInterval; return $response; } catch (Exception $e) { $response->status = false; $response->result = 'Invalid Date Format'; return $response; } } |
Read the comments in the script to understand it. You can use it in your existing projects as well.
Basically the above function will receive two parameters “$start_date” and “$end_date” and then converts into DateTime object using DateTime(). And diff() will return the difference between two dates.
Here is the demo script shows you how to use the above function:
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<?php //this function return two main values status (either true or false) and result (which has all the other details) function find_days($start_date, $end_date) { $response = new stdClass(); //using try catch in case if any invalid date entered try { //get the entered start date and end date and convert into datetime $sdate = new DateTime($start_date); $edate = new DateTime($end_date); //here is the real deal, diff() is the function which is going to give us the result $dateInterval = $edate->diff($sdate); $response->status = true; $response->result = $dateInterval; return $response; } catch (Exception $e) { $response->status = false; $response->result = 'Invalid Date Format'; return $response; } } ?> <html> <head> <title>PHP Script to find Days between two Dates!</title> </head> <body> <h3>Days between two Dates</h3> <form method="post"> Start Date: <input type="date" name="sdate" placeholder="eg:16-05-2016" value="<?= (isset($_POST['sdate'])) ? $_POST['sdate'] : date('Y-m-j'); ?>" /> End Date: <input type="date" name="edate" placeholder="eg:16-05-2016" value="<?= (isset($_POST['edate'])) ? $_POST['edate'] : date('Y-m-j', strtotime('+ 3 days')); ?>" /> <input type="submit" value="Find Days" /><br /><br /> <?php //check if the post data has some value if (isset($_POST['sdate']) && $_POST['sdate']) { $start_date = $_POST['sdate']; $end_date = $_POST['edate']; //now call the function $days_array = find_days($start_date, $end_date); if ($days_array->status) { echo "Result: <b>".$days_array->result->days."</b> Days"; } else { echo $days_array->result; } } ?> </form> </body> </html> |
You can also see the online demo of this script from the below link:
nice job,thank