Checking the difference between two dates

Question

i\'m attempting to make an if statement to compare two time/dates and see if the second date is less than 24 hours after the first date entered. if it is it should not allow the

Answer 1

You can get the difference in seconds by converting the two DateTime objects to timestamps. $diffInSeconds = $future_date->getTimestamp() - $now->getTimestamp();

Maybe it would be better to use strtotime, if the DateTime objects are only required for this operation.