Question

This is the query I am using and it is in page 1 not inside the function.

<?php
$sql2= mysql_query("SELECT *
FROM catego WHERE category_id = '$idc'");
$categoryCount = mysql_num_rows($sql2); 
if ($categoryCount>0 )
{
    $row2 = mysql_fetch_array($sql2);     
    $id = $row2["category_id"];


    $birthdate = $row2["birthdate"];
    $address = $row2["address"];
}
?>

Answer 1

A simple php function could be something like the following:

function birth_date ($birth_date){
    list($y,$m,$d) = explode(",",$birth_date);
    $y_diff  = date("Y") - $y;
    $m_diff = date("m") - $m;
    $d_diff   = date("d") - $d;
    if ($m_diff < 0 || $d_diff < 0) { $y_diff--; }
    return $y_diff;
}

i.e split on your commas, work out the differences, adjust for which side of their birthdate the day/month is, if so reduce the year by one, then just return the year.

Then in your page you can put:

<li><span class="label">Age:</spa><?php$age = getage($birthdate); echo $age;?> </li>

EDIT:

<?php
function birth_date($birth_date){
    list($y,$m,$d) = explode(",",$birth_date);
    $y_diff  = date("Y") - $y;
    $m_diff = date("m") - $m;
    $d_diff   = date("d") - $d;
    if ($m_diff < 0 || $d_diff < 0) { $y_diff--; }
    return $y_diff;
}

$sql2= mysql_query("SELECT * FROM catego WHERE category_id = '$idc'");
$categoryCount = mysql_num_rows($sql2); 
if ($categoryCount>0 )
{
    $row2 = mysql_fetch_array($sql2);     
    $id = $row2["category_id"];
    $birthdate = $row2["birthdate"];
    $address = $row2["address"];

    $age = birth_date($birthdate);
}
?>