Question

Hey guys,
how does one calculate the days past since a date like the one Twitter outputs in its API
eg:

Mon Jul 12 00:27:26 +0000 2010

to XXX

Can we do it with strtotime

Thanks guys,
Dex

Answer 1

You can do it like that (where $your_date is the string you mentioned):

$diff = (time() - strtotime($your_date)) / (24*60*60);

In your case, when I did echo $diff; the output was (at the time I posted the answer):

321.85475694444

See more details for strtotime(), time() and date().

Hope this helped you.