Question

I’m trying to get a simple “XX days left” for a custom post time I’m working with (jobs). I’ve tried to find the answer everywhere but nothing adapts well, changed my code 1000 times following examples on internet but I couldn’t solve.

My code looks like this :

<?php
$today = date('d/m/Y');
$today = strtotime($today);
$finish = get_field('todate');
$finish = strtotime($finish);
//diference
$diff = $finish - $today;
$daysleft=floor($diff/(60*60*24));
echo "$daysleft days left";
?>

on $finish the get_field (‘todate’) returns the date dd/mm/yyyy

Anyone who can help me please?

Thanks!

Answer 1

The issue is the arrangement of the d/m/Y (it should be m/d/Y) in your $today and $finish variables (for a listing of valid date formats that work with strtotime, visit the PHP Date Format page):

<?php    
    $today = date('m/d/Y');
    $today = strtotime($today);
    $finish = get_field('todate');
    $finish = strtotime($finish);
    //difference
    $diff = $finish - $today;

    $daysleft=floor($diff/(60*60*24));
    echo "$daysleft days left";
?>

Tested and works, assuming the $finish date is entered as m/d/yyyy (not as d/m/yyyy)