Finding the number of days between two dates

Question

How to find number of days between two dates using PHP?

Answer 1

Calculate the difference between two dates:

$date1=date_create("2013-03-15");
$date2=date_create("2013-12-12");

$diff=date_diff($date1,$date2);

echo $diff->format("%R%a days");

Output: +272 days

The date_diff() function returns the difference between two DateTime objects.