Get the item age ... date command...

Hello I want to known how old some documents are...

so until now i have

- my current date , ex: 26-10-2007

and the date when documents were created ex , 11-10-2007, or 1-12-2005,6-6-2006,

Is there any way to quickly display the age of the documents?!

as $age=$today-$creation_date ?!

 

This should do the trick:

time() - filectime($file)

Code (markup):

Filectime() only works on Windows, though. From what I understand, most filesystems don't save file creation date.

 

Sorry , you didn't got my question ... my problem it's how to get the days, months and years...
not the file creation date...

I got all the items dates in a database...
now..
if i do something like
<?php

$today='4-2-2007';
$yesterday='1-1-2006';

$write=date($today-$yesterday);
echo $write;
?>
it will out 3 , so it's not calculating the days, motnhs,etc...


And i want it to report back "1 year, 1 month and 3 days!"

 

Any help , pls, especially from nick _swd

 

I wrote this function a while ago, which will help here. It compares two timestamps and returns the difference like you want it.

function calc_date_diff($timestamp_past = false, $timestamp_future = false, $years = true, $months = true, $days = true, $hours = true, $mins = true, $secs = true)
{
	// Use current time if parameter is FALSE.
	if (!$timestamp_past)   $timestamp_past = time();
	if (!$timestamp_future) $timestamp_future = time();
	
	// Attempt to convert strings to timestamp if necessary.
	$timestamp_future = is_string($timestamp_future) ? strtotime($timestamp_future) : intval($timestamp_future);
	$timestamp_past   = is_string($timestamp_past)   ? strtotime($timestamp_past)   : intval($timestamp_past);
	
	$diff = $timestamp_future - $timestamp_past;
	$calc_times = array();
	$timeleft   = array();
	
	// Prepare array, depending on the output we want to get.
	if ($years)  $calc_times[] = array('Year',   'Years',   31104000);
	if ($months) $calc_times[] = array('Month',  'Months',  2592000);
	if ($days)   $calc_times[] = array('Day',    'Days',    86400);
	if ($hours)  $calc_times[] = array('Hour',   'Hours',   3600);
	if ($mins)   $calc_times[] = array('Minute', 'Minutes', 60);
	if ($secs)   $calc_times[] = array('Second', 'Seconds', 1);

	foreach ($calc_times AS $timedata)
	{
		list($time_sing, $time_plur, $offset) = $timedata;
		
		if ($diff >= $offset)
		{
			$left = floor($diff / $offset);
			$diff -= ($left * $offset);
			$timeleft[] = "{$left} ". ($left == 1 ? $time_sing : $time_plur);
		}
	}
	
	return $timeleft ? ($timestamp_future > $timestamp_past ? null : '-') . implode(', ', $timeleft) : 0;
}

PHP:

Usage example:

$age = calc_date_diff(filectime('file.zip'));
// Returns (Eg): 7 Months, 6 Days, 11 Hours, 56 Minutes, 29 Seconds
echo $age;

PHP: