Question

i have one date value coming from database and i want to calculate difference between today date and that database date.

the dates coming from database is

2012-06-11 18:20:40

i use this code to see values

    echo date('Y-m-d H:i:s');
    echo $result['dt_pub_date'];

i have written this code

$val=date('Y-m-d H:i:s') ->diff($result['dt_pub_date']);

but getting this error

Fatal error: Call to a member function diff() on a non-object in.....

Thanks

Answer 1

date() function don’t return DateTime object, just return string.

You need to use DateTime object.

$now = new DateTime();
$val = $now->diff(new DateTime($result['dt_pub_date']));