http://www.idimensionz.com/blog Professional web site programming and design. Affordable web site hosting. Fri, 24 Apr 2009 19:07:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 http://www.idimensionz.com/blog/2009/03/30/new-date-and-time-functions-in-php-530/ http://www.idimensionz.com/blog/2009/03/30/new-date-and-time-functions-in-php-530/#comments Mon, 30 Mar 2009 13:09:04 +0000 iDimensionz Admin http://www.idimensionz.com/blog/?p=34 While browsing through the PHP documentation, I came across some very useful new functions available in PHP 5.3.0 for working with dates and times.  One of my current projects requires working with a date range.  There are various ways to do this.  I was originally going to use MySQL’s DATE_DIFF() function to calculate the number days in the range but connecting to the database for this functionality was obviously not the best solution.  I browsed the PHP documentation and found a date_diff() function that is part of PHP 5.3.0.  This function is just an alias of the DateTime class’s diff() function and returns a DateInterval instance which can be used to format the result.  The DateTime class is part of the ext/date extension.  I’m looking forward to the stable 5.3.0 release to be able to take advantage of this functionality.

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