In this tutorial you will learn how to PHP date difference in months in a PHP web application.

PHP date difference in months

In this tutorial you will learn how to PHP date difference in months in a PHP web application. In this tutorial $date1 and $date2 variable that use for assign date and  $date_diff  use for assign  difference  of dates in Unix timestamp (in second) . The $date_diff divide 2628000  that return number of months .The code of  "php-date-difference-in-months.php"  given below :

<?php
$date1=date('2011-1-1');
$date2=date('2011-5-2');
echo "date1 :: ".$date1."<br>";
echo "date2 :: ".$date2."<br>";
$date_diff=strtotime($date2)-strtotime($date1);
echo "date difference in months => ".floor(($date_diff)/2628000)." months <br>";
?>

Output :

 When run "php-date-difference-in-months.php"  display output as :

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