Get interval seconds between two datetime in PHP?

Question

2009-10-05 18:11:08

2009-10-05 18:07:13

This should generate 235,how to do it ?

Answer 1

PHP Date Time reference is helpful for things like this: PHP Date Time Functions

strtotime() is probably the best way.

$seconds = strtotime('2009-10-05 18:11:08') - strtotime('2009-10-05 18:07:13')